Saturday, December 14, 2013

How can or does life mean something to us?


"However, the attempt to argue that the whole idea of ‘a meaning of life’ is incoherent stumbles when it comes to the meaning of ‘meaning’ which concerns the importance something has, as in ‘it means a lot to me’. It is precisely here that life can and does have meaning. It doesn’t have meaning in itself, from a neutral perspective. But it means something to us. The question ‘What is the meaning of life?’ may well not fit comfortably with this interpretation, but the question ‘How can or does life mean something to us?’ certainly does. The question is thus one about why life is of value to us, why we think it to be important and worth living. This is a perfectly coherent question."

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