Meaning in Life: Meeting the Challenges

Foundations of Science 21 (2):279-282 (2016)
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Responding to comments by Cheshire Calhoun and Arnold Burms, this piece clarifies some of Wolf’s ideas about the relation between meaningfulness in life, on the one hand, and reasons of love, fulfillment, and objective value, on the other. Meaning tends to come from activities whose reasons are grounded in love of a worthy object, and not necessarily from reasons having anything to do with an interest in meaningfulness itself. But what counts as a worthy object cannot be determined either from a totally neutral and impersonal point of view or from the points of view of specific other people who matter to the subject.

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Susan Wolf
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Sinn- eine dritte Dimension des guten Lebens?Christoph Halbig - 2018 - Zeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie 5 (2):55-78.

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