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May 15, 2007 · Now, one might argue that a life would be meaningless if, or even because, it were unhappy or immoral, but that would be to posit a synthetic, substantive relationship between the concepts, far from indicating that speaking of “meaningfulness” is analytically a matter of connoting ideas regarding happiness or rightness.
Mar 12, 2017 · I answer: The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life,” wrote Einstein. Did Einstein himself hold...
Jun 22, 2014 · To some, life would make sense only if happiness were ultimately proportioned to morality; it would be meaningless for the wicked to prosper and the upright to suffer. (33)
Oct 26, 2011 · Highly immoral lives should be seen not only as not meaningful, but, because of their immense immorality, as the inverse of meaningful. Hitler’s life is not merely meaningless, a life in which meaning is absent, but instead is a life in which the converse of meaning is present.
- Iddo Landau
- ilandau@research.haifa.ac.il
- 2011
As John Martin Fischer says in Death, Mortality, and Meaning in Life (2019): “Meaningfulness is not the same as happiness, although we would expect a connection between them. If one’s life is meaningful, then probably the individual would be happy.
Sep 18, 2023 · In my view, the moral monster lived a meaningless life not because their life was characterised by immoral actions, but rather because they were successful in harming or minimising others’ well-being.
Sep 16, 2013 · Indeed, stress and negative life events were two powerful blows to happiness, despite their significant positive association with a meaningful life. We begin to get a sense of what the happy but not very meaningful life would be like.
