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    The Meanings of Life and Value Priorities of the Post-Soviet Society in the Republic of Belarus.Alexander N. Danilov - 2020 - Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences 63 (10):25-37.
    The article discusses the meanings of life and value priorities of the post- Soviet society. The author argues that, at present, there are symptoms of a global ideological crisis in the world, that the West does not have its own vision of where and how to move on and has no understanding of the future. Unfortunately, most of the post-Soviet countries do not have such vision as well. In these conditions, there are mistrust, confusion, paradoxical manifestation of human consciousness. (...)
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  2. Meaning of Life in Death situation from Wittgenstein Point of View using Grounded Theory.Hoshyar Naderpoor, Reza Akbari & Meysam Latifi - 2017 - Falsafeh: The Iranian Journal of Philosophy 45 (1):95-111.
    This study focuses on the experimental and philosophical analysis of the meaning of life in death situation, according to Wittgenstein’s way of life and sayings during the war. The method of extraction and analysis of information is grounded theory. For this purpose, Wittgenstein’s writings such as his letters and memories, and other’s texts about his life and his internal moods were analyzed. After analyzing the collected information and categorizing them in frames of open codes, axial codes, (...)
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    The meaning of life between the self and the normative process of self-realisation.Giovanna Caruso - 2019 - Human Affairs 29 (4):489-496.
    Self-research becomes a starting point for the question about the human being in contemporary anthropological approaches. Accordingly, human life is not viewed anymore as the theoretical object of philosophical investigation, but as the concrete performative execution of the individual’s life. Following this existential paradigm, this paper shows, on the basis of Heidegger’s ‘analytic of Dasein’ and Angehrn’s ‘hermeneutic of the self,’ that the meaning of life can be identified with the process of self-realization much more than (...)
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    Meaning of Life.Christoph Horn - 2019 - In Ludger Kühnhardt & Tilman Mayer, The Bonn Handbook of Globality: Volume 2. Springer Verlag. pp. 1333-1341.
    When handling the concept “meaning of life,” it is necessary to differentiate between meaning of life in a strict sense and meaning in life. While the meaning of life refers to human life in general and out of a super subjective perspective, the meaning in life considers the meaning in an individual life out of a subjective perspective. However, in both versions, a problem arises as to whether (...)
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    "The Meaning of Life": according to the great and the good.Richard Kinnier (ed.) - 2010 - Bath, U.K.: Palazzo Editions.
    Life is to be enjoyed -- We are here to serve God -- We are here to seek wisdom and self-actualization -- The meaning of life is a mystery -- Life is meaningless -- We are here to help others -- Life is a struggle -- We are here to contribute to society -- We must create meaning for ourselves -- Life is absurd.
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    The meaning of life among secondary school pupils: a theoretical framework and some initial results.Hannele Niemi - 1987 - Helsinki: Dept. of Education, University of Helsinki.
    This monograph reports on an empirical survey of 394 secondary school students investigating their desire to seek the meaning of their own lives. The theoretical framework upon which the study was based is that of Viktor E. Frankl's hypotheses that a human being wants to seek the meaning in his own life. The questionnaire consisted of tests measuring pupils' concepts of their own life's purposes, significance, and meaningfulness. Questions dealt with values and attitudes toward existential questions. (...)
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    The meaning of life in the works of Ibn Sinā.Mahmoud Nazari - 2024 - Philosophy Journal 17 (4):40.
    This paper examines an exploration of the meaning of life, focusing on the philosophical insights of Islamic philosopher Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna). While Ibn Sīnā’s works do not ex­plicitly mention the concept of the meaning of life, his discussions on happiness and well-being closely relate to such a fundamental existential inquiry as the goal of life. In his philosophical works, well-being is introduced as an inherently desirable and ulti­mate purpose of pleasures, considering it a necessary and (...)
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    The Meaning of Life in Hinduism and Buddhism.Floyd H. Ross - 2008 - Routledge.
    Originally published in 1952. This volume, by discussing significant insights of Hinduism and Buddhism, answers the question "What is the meaning of life?" It illustrates the importance of Buddhist and Hindu teachings and their relevance to the West, as well as clarifying some of the religious and philosophical problems Western readers must grapple with.
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    Schelling, esotericism and the meaning of life.Olli Petteri Pitkänen - 2019 - Human Affairs 29 (4):497-504.
    F.W.J. Schelling argues in his middle period work Philosophical Inquiries into the Nature of Human Freedom that will should be understood as the most fundamental constitutive element of reality. Though it is often downplayed in recent scholarship, Schelling derived his most central ideas for this work more or less directly from the theosophy of Jacob Boehme. I will argue that far from peripheral and antiquated curiosity, Schelling´s esoteric influences constitute the very foundation of his middle period thought. Schelling´s affinity to (...)
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    Meaning of Life in Fragile Witnessing: On Experiencing Radical Uniqueness as Gift and Grace.Mikael Lindfelt - 2016 - Foundations of Science 21 (2):305-309.
    In this comment-response Mikael Lindfelt makes some suggestions to how one could develop the argument for witnessing as experiencing meaningfulness in life as put forward by Nicole Note and Emilie Van Deale. While being positive to the main phenomenological approach, and especially the dialectical relational aspect of the phenomenological argument, Lindfelt uses Alain Badiou’s talk of Event in trying both to develop the phenomenological argument and to point out some idealistic tendencies in the line of the argument. Lindfelt suggests (...)
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    (1 other version)The Meaning of life.E. D. Klemke (ed.) - 1981 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    Many writers in various fields--philosophy, religion, literature, and psychology--believe that the question of the meaning of life is one of the most significant problems that an individual faces. In The Meaning of Life, Second Edition, E.D. Klemke collects some of the best writings on this topic, primarily works by philosophers but also selections from literary figures and religious thinkers. The twenty-seven cogent, readable essays are organized around three different perspectives on the meaning of life. (...)
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    معنای زندگی (Persian: The Meaning of Life).Thaddeus Metz - 2015 - Phoenix Publishing.
    Translation of 'The Meaning of Life' (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) into Persian by Abdulfazl Tavakoli Shandiz. Printed as a booklet.
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    The Perceived Meaning of Life in the Case of Parents of Children with Intellectual Disabilities.Żaneta Stelter - 2015 - Diametros 46:92-110.
    The perceived meaning of life significantly affects the quality of human life. It is of particular significance in borderline situations. One of such situations is the birth of an intellectually disabled child. The article presents the results of the study concerning the perceived meaning of life in the case of parents who bring up a child with limited intellectual abilities. The study included 87 mothers and 65 fathers bringing up an intellectually disabled child. In the (...)
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    Meaning of life as a resource for coping with psychological crisis: Comparisons of suicidal and non-suicidal patients.Olga Kalashnikova, Dmitry Leontiev, Elena Rasskazova & Olga Taranenko - 2022 - Frontiers in Psychology 13:957782.
    IntroductionMeaning is an important psychological resource both in situations of accomplishment and in situations of ongoing adversity and psychological crisis. Meaning in life underlies the reasons for staying alive both in everyday and in critical circumstances, fulfilling a buffering function with respect to life adversities.AimThe aim of the present study was to reveal the role of both meaningfulness, including specific sources of meaning and reasons for living, and meaninglessness (alienation) in patients suffering from profound crisis situations (...)
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  15. Confused meanings of life, genes and parents.M. L. - 2001 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 32 (4):647-661.
    Questions concerning the moral status of embryos, the validity of new technologies for human reproduction, ownership of one's own genes, gene patenting, privacy and discrimination have all been raised and debated. Although debate is healthy, it is only useful if all participants understand the fundamental biological principles underlying human life, human genes and human parenthood. Many people believe that science can play no role in determining when human life begins. I argue that this false assumption is based on (...)
     
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    The Concept of the Meaning of life in the Critical Philosophy of A.I. Vvedensky.Pavel Vladimirov & Nato G. Khasaya - 2021 - Studies in Transcendental Philosophy 2 (3).
    The article is devoted to identifying the concept of the meaning of life in the critical philosophy of A.I. Vvedensky, where special attention is paid to the methodological foundations and the historical and philosophical context. The formulation of the question about the meaning of life is one of the ultimate questions in philosophy, the answer to which makes it possible to determine the motives of human activity. In Vvedenskyʼs philosophy, the problem of goal-setting in life (...)
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    The Meaning of Life: A Reader.E. D. Klemke & Steven M. Cahn (eds.) - 2007 - New York: Oxford University Press USA.
    Featuring nine new articles chosen by coeditor, Steven M. Cahn, the third edition of E. D. Klemke's The Meaning of Life offers twenty-two insightful selections that explore this fascinating topic. The essays are primarily by philosophers but also include materials from literary figures and religious thinkers. As in previous editions, the readings are organized around three themes. In Part I the articles defend the view that without faith in God, life has no meaning or purpose. In (...)
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  18. The meaning of life.Terry Eagleton - 2007 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    The phrase "the meaning of life" for many seems a quaint notion fit for satirical mauling by Monty Python or Douglas Adams. But in this spirited, stimulating, and quirky enquiry, famed critic Terry Eagleton takes a serious if often amusing look at the question and offers his own surprising answer. Eagleton first examines how centuries of thinkers and writers--from Marx and Schopenhauer to Shakespeare, Sartre, and Beckett--have responded to the ultimate question of meaning. He suggests, however, that (...)
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    The Meaning of Life and the Great Philosophers.Stephen D. Leach & James Tartaglia (eds.) - 2018 - New York: Routledge.
    The Meaning of Life and the Great Philosophers reveals how great philosophers of the past sought to answer the question of the meaning of life. This edited collection includes thirty-five chapters which each focus on a major figure, from Confucius to Rorty, and that imaginatively engage with the topic from their perspective. This volume also contains a Postscript on the historical origins and original significance of the phrase 'the meaning of life'.
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  20. (9 other versions)The Meaning of Life (textbook).Thaddeus Metz - forthcoming - In Duncan Pritchard, What Is This Thing Called Philosophy? 2nd edn. Routledge.
    Three chapters on the meaning of life composed for undergraduate philosophy majors, now revised and updated for a second edition.
     
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    The meaning of life as represented in the life sciences and the Jewish heritage.Ephraim Katzir - 1989 - [Cape Town]: Kaplan Centre, University of Cape Town.
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    The meaning of life.F. C. White - 1975 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 53 (2):148 – 150.
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    The Meaning of Life.L. J. Russell - 1953 - Philosophy 28 (104):30 - 40.
    The question I shall deal with is often put in the form “What is the meaning of life?” I shall consider this form later on, but I do not want to begin with it, partly because it assumes that life has a meaning which can be called “the” meaning, an assumption which will have to be looked into, and partly because I want to start with something which looks very much more vague.
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    Meaning of life & the universe: transforming.Mae-Wan Ho - 2017 - New Jersey: World Scientific.
    The scope of this extraordinary selection of essays, distilled from nearly a thousand works that the author has written, is literally the entire universe and universe of knowledge. It charts the author's quest for the meaning of life faced with a dominant knowledge system she regards as incoherent, meaningless, and often acting against people and planet. She shows how contemporary scientific findings across all disciplines already provide an authentic knowledge system that's coherent with life and the universe. (...)
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    The Meaning of Life and the “Pottersville Test”.Jay R. Elliott - 2013 - Film and Philosophy 17:38-46.
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  26. Neurology, psychology, and the meaning of life: On Thagard's The Brain and the Meaning of Life.Iddo Landau - 2013 - Philosophical Psychology 26 (4):604-618.
    The Brain and the Meaning of Life Paul Thagard Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010 274 pages, ISBN: 9780691142722 (hbk): $29.95 This paper criticizes central arguments in Paul Thagard's The Brain and the Meaning of Life, concluding, contrary to Thagard, that there is very little that we can learn from brain research about the meaning of life. The paper offers a critical review of Thagard's argument against nihilism and his argument that it is love, work, (...)
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  27. The Meaning of Life: A Topological Approach.Nikolay Milkov - 2005 - Analecta Husserliana 84:217–34.
    In parts of his Notebooks, Tractatus and in “Lecture on Ethics”, Wittgenstein advanced a new approach to the problems of the meaning of life. It was developed as a reaction to the explorations on this theme by Bertrand Russell. Wittgenstein’s objective was to treat it with a higher degree of exactness. The present paper shows that he reached exactness by treating themes of philosophical anthropology using the formal method of topology.
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    The Meaning of Life in Indian Philosophy: A Contemporary Reconstruction.Rajakishore Nath - 2018 - Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research 35 (2):249-265.
    In this paper, I would like to discuss the meaning of life in Indian philosophy. All Indian philosophies are philosophies of life. Indian philosophy is not merely an intellectual activity but has practical application which enables men to lead an enlightened life. Any philosophy, either Indian or Western which makes no difference to human life, is not a philosophy. The human life always strives towards freedom, duty, wisdom, well-being, etc. These are the noble values (...)
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    (1 other version)The Meaning of Life.Boran Berčić - 2006 - Filozofska Istrazivanja 26 (1):91-113.
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  30. On the Meaning of Life in the age of the Most Meaningless Death.Costica Bradatan - 2010 - Angelaki 15 (3):67-85.
    (2010). On the Meaning of Life in the age of the Most Meaningless Death. Angelaki: Vol. 15, The Unbearable Charm of Fragility Philosophizing in/on Eastern Europe, pp. 67-85.
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  31. The meaning of life: a very short introduction.Terry Eagleton - 2008 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    The phrase "the meaning of life" for many seems a quaint notion fit for satirical mauling by Monty Python or Douglas Adams. But in this spirited Very Short Introduction, famed critic Terry Eagleton takes a serious if often amusing look at the question and offers his own surprising answer. Eagleton first examines how centuries of thinkers and writers--from Marx and Schopenhauer to Shakespeare, Sartre, and Beckett--have responded to the ultimate question of meaning. He suggests, however, that it (...)
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  32. Meaning of Life: Peter Wessel Zapffe on the Human Condition”.Roe Fremstedal - 2013 - In Beatrix Himmelmann, On Meaning in Life. Berlin: De Gruyter. pp. 113-128.
    The present text deals with the question of the meaning of life in theexistentialist theory oft heNorwegian philosopher Peter Wessel Zapffe(1899–1990). In his book On the Tragic (1941), Zapffe sketched a theory of the human condition where the meaning of life plays a decisive role together with the human need for justice. This paper aims to reconstruct the central elements of Zapffe’s analysis and to discuss them critically by focusing on his claim that human beings need (...)
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  33. The Meaning of Life.C. E. M. Joad - 1929 - Humana Mente 4 (14):277-277.
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    The Meaning of Life: Insights of the World’s Great Thinkers.William Gerber - 1994 - Brill | Rodopi.
    The book aims to present the wisdom of sages, great thinkers, renowned writers, and philosophers, of many countries and time periods, in their own words, regarding life. The book also aims to place the numerous quotations from these sources in a structured organization, with introductory and explanatory comments and comparisons. Main Topics or Fields - See Organization or Principal Parts.
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    On Meanings of Life: Their Nature and Origin.Jerome Eckstein - 2002 - State University of New York Press.
    Explores the factors that make for a meaningful life.
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein: the meaning of life.Joaquín Jareño-Alarcón (ed.) - 2023 - Hoboken, NJ, USA: Wiley.
    important source for the work has been the testimony of those closest to Wittgenstein. Literary executors, friends and students have all become essential tools for discovering more about Wittgenstein's personality and thoughts. That is the reason why many of their writings have been used to give a more accurate description of how the philosopher understood matters concerning the meaning of life.
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    The Meaning of Life.Roger Ames - 1999 - Philosophy Now 24:22-23.
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  38. The Meaning of Life – And the Possibility of Human Illness – Prolegomena.Kiraly V. Istvan - 2011 - Philobiblon - Transilvanian Journal of Multidisciplinary Research in Humanities 16 (2).
    Abstract: The study investigates philosophically the issue of human illness and its organic pertinence to the meaning of human life starting from the recognition that the dangerous encounter with the experience of illness is an unavoidable – and as such crucial – experience of the life of any living being. As for us humans, there is probably no mortal man who has never suffered of some – any! – kind of disease from his birth to the end (...)
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    The meaning of life.Oswald Hanfling - 1989 - Cogito 3 (1):63-67.
  40. The meaning of life.Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad - 1928 - London,: Watts & co..
     
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    The Meaning of Life.Stewart Goetz - 2017-12-05 - In C. S. Lewis. Hoboken, NJ, USA: Wiley. pp. 60–87.
    This chapter discusses Clive Staples Lewis's views about the purpose of life. Lewis himself believed that nature does not have its own purposes. Instead, he thought God created the natural world, and the human beings which inhabit it, for a purpose. Lewis believed the purpose of life is that we experience a happiness that he variably described as eternal, infinite, complete, or perfect. The experience of this happiness is the life of the blessed. Lewis thought happiness is (...)
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    Money and the meaning of life: The fantasy of instant wealth.Amy E. Wendling - 2019 - Human Affairs 29 (4):470-478.
    Is the meaning of life to get rich quick? That would certainly explain the way many people have lived under the spell of a constitutive fantasy: the fantasy of instant wealth. Drawing on Lacan’s Discourse of the Capitalist, the article explores the fantasy of instant wealth and its relationship to addiction, especially addiction to shopping. The article concludes with a meditation on how the fantasy of instant wealth supplants and in some ways contradicts another fantasy: the fantasy of (...)
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  43. The meaning of “life’s meaning”.Michael Prinzing - 2021 - Philosophers' Imprint 21 (3):1-14.
    Life’s meaning is a deeply important yet perplexing topic. It is often unclear what people are talking about when they talk about life having “meaning”. This paper attempts to clarify things by articulating a schema for understanding claims about meaning. It defends a theory according to which X means Y iff Y is a correct interpretation of X—i.e., if Y is a correct answer to an interpretive question, Z. I argue that this (perhaps surprising) claim (...)
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  44. The meaning of life reflections on God, immortality, and free will.Raymond Bradley - manuscript
    Philosophers, and other thinking people, have long pondered three grand questions about the nature of reality and our status and significance within it.
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    The Meaning of Life in the African Social Context.R. J. Njoroge - 1981 - Dialectics and Humanism 8 (2):115-123.
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    The meaning of life as an object of philosophical reflection.S. A. Lokhov - 2017 - RUDN Journal of Philosophy 21 (2):260-269.
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    (5 other versions)The Meaning of Life.David Shapiro - 2003 - Questions: Philosophy for Young People 3:2-2.
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    The meaning of life.Joshua Loth Liebman - 1950 - Cincinnati,: Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.
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    The Value and Meaning of Life.Christopher Belshaw - 2020 - New York, NY: Routledge.
    In this book Christopher Belshaw draws on earlier work concerning death, identity, animals, immortality, extinction, and builds a large-scale argument on the value and meaning of life. Rejecting suggestions that life is sacred or intrinsically valuable, he argues instead that its value varies, and varies considerably, both within and between different kinds of things. So in some case we might have reason to improve or save a life, while in others that reason will be lacking. The (...)
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    The Meaning of Life. By C. E. M. Joad. (London: The Rational Press Association, Ltd. 1928. Pp. iv + 60. Price 1s. net.).J. E. Turner - 1929 - Philosophy 4 (14):277-.
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