Monday, October 6, 2008
What is the meaning of life?
What is the meaning of life? Is it the meaning of being human or the meaning of life to each individual living it? If we're all going to be dead in the end anyway, what difference does it make as to what we do with our lives? Does the finality of death make life meaningless? Perhaps it is better to talk about its significance, authenticity, importance, rather than meaning itself. Human beings could choose their ends with the sovereignty to define their own meaning for their lives. Even if there no answer to the question of meaning of life, there is still the need to get through day to day. People who believe in God could still find their lives meaningless while on the other hand, atheists who have significant missions and relationships could feel their lives overflowing with meaning. What does meaning mean? Throughout the centuries, different philosophers have different answers. Existentialists find no meaning in life. Wittgenstein reckoned the question itself is meaningless. To the Darwinians, the meaning of life is evolution and more life. Perhaps the question is not so much about the meaning of life, but about living it….“How should I live?” and finding something beyond to discover an answer. If we ask the question “How to live life to the fullest?”, we probably get a whole new lot of answers.
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