Life, Meaning and Value of [addendum]
Paul Edwards primarily addresses the "pessimist view" that if there is no God and death is final, life has no meaning. The focus here will be on sub...
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Life, Meaning and Value Of
To the questions "Is human life ever worthwhile?" and "Does (or can) human life have any meaning?" many religious thinkers have offered affirmati...
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"Meaningless! Meaningless! says the Teacher. "Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless1...I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after...
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Religion is the human response to the meaning and purpose of life. Throughout human history, people have been searching for this meaning and over the centuries, beliefs systems have been established...
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Robert Byrne, an eminent teacher and commentator, once stated, "The purpose of life is a life of purpose." When my philosophy teacher presented our class with the question, "What is the meaning of lif...
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`Where did we come from"', `Why are we here"', `Where are we going"'. These are questions which surface, centre stage, at some point in most people's lives. For philosophers, and others, they constitu...
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