Questions about the Meaning of Life
Claims about the meaning of life' have tended to be made and discussed in conjunction with bold metaphysical and theological affirmations. For life to have meaning, there must (it is assumed) be a comprehensive divine plan to give it meaning, or there must be an intelligible cosmic process wit...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[1966]
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Religious studies
Year: 1966, Volume: 1, Issue: 2, Pages: 125-140 |
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| Summary: | Claims about the meaning of life' have tended to be made and discussed in conjunction with bold metaphysical and theological affirmations. For life to have meaning, there must (it is assumed) be a comprehensive divine plan to give it meaning, or there must be an intelligible cosmic process with a telos' that a man needs to know if his life is to be meaningfully orientated. Or, it is thought to be a condition of the meaningfulness of life, that values should be ultimately conserved' in some way, that no evil should be unredeemable and irrational. And it may be claimed that if death were to end our experience, meaninglessness would triumph. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-901X |
| Reference: | Kritisiert in "Professor Hepburn on Meaning in Life (1968)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412500002419 |