File:Journal of Controversial Ideas Volume 01 Issue 01 (April 2021) 10 Ultimate Meaning - We Don’t Have It, We Can’t Get It, and We Should Be Very, Very Sad.pdf
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Ultimate Meaning: We Don’t Have It, We Can’t Get It, and We Should Be Very, Very Sad
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English: Life is pointless. That’s not okay. I show that. I argue that a point is a valued end and that, as agents, it makes sense for us to want our efforts and enterprises to have a point. Valued ends provide justifying reasons for our acts, efforts, and projects. I further argue that ends lie separate from the acts and enterprises for which they provide a point. Since there can be no end external to one’s entire life since one’s life includes all of one’s ends, leading and living one’s life as a whole cannot have a point. Finally, I argue that since we live our lives and structure our living-a-human-life efforts both in parts and as a whole, it is fitting to be sad to recognize that leading and living a life is pointless. My discussion helps make sense of the literature that frequently talks around this topic but often does so vaguely and indirectly. |
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| Source | https://www.journalofcontroversialideas.org/article/1/1/132 |
| Author | Rivka Weinberg |
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