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6 Φεβ 2023 · Does life’s having meaning depend on a supernatural reality? Is death a threat to life’s meaning? Is life the sort of thing that can have a “meaning”? In what sense? Here we will consider some approaches to questions about the meaning of life.
9 Φεβ 2021 · A 10,000+ word critical overview of analytic philosophy devoted to life's meaning, with some focus on books and more recent works.
This is an edited transcript of a lecture given at the LSE in March 2023. The lecture introduces the “meaning of life” question via Tolstoy’s Confession, then considers the strengths and limitations of religious and secular answers to the question. Tolstoy’s question.
Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.11, No.1 (June 2021):144-154 [Essay] The Meaning of Life is the Pursuit of Love Heidi Cobham* Abstract What is the meaning of life? In this paper, I defend the claim that love, either in part or in full, is the answer to this question. As love occupies such an overarching and central position within human
Philosophy and the Meaning of Life. Robert Nozick’s engaging philosophical reflections on the meaning of life start with a joke, which he analyzes. He then presents and discusses eight different modes of meaning. The problem of a life’s meaning arises, he says, because of a life’s limitations. These include the fact that one dies.
The Meaning of Life. What We Mean by ‘Meaning’. Aaron Brooks* Abstract. There are two types of arguments found in the literature on existential meaning: (1) debates over existential meaning as a concept; and (2) debates over conceptions of existential meaning.
To clarify, making meaning judgments about things in life is distinct from making meaning judgments about parts, segments or time slices of a life, which still falls within the tradition of making judgments about a life.
