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2024 Is it possible to summarize the meaning of life in a thousand words or so? Can the key questions that have preoccupied great philosophers for millennia be encapsulated in the idiomatic nutshell?

If you've ever wondered about the meaning of life, you have something in common with the great historical philosophers. Sometimes, asking yourself big questions, such as "Who am I?" or "What's my ...

Rowlands, whose previous book was “The Philosophy of the ... but Shadow plays the game daily with great joy. “Finding meaning in life is hard for us, but easy for dogs,” maintains Rowland.

But according to a new book ... philosophers who tried to explain the different approaches to the search for meaning, argues Heine. For example, Kierkegaard, a theologian, believed in God but also ...

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The book, published in December ... it can never help us understand the meaning of life. The mistake is in asking AI “tell me why I exist.” The better approach is to tell it that, “I ...

I n the spring of 1969, Hannah Arendt solicited funding to write a book ... McCarthy wrote in her postface to The Life of the Mind, she had learned a great deal from Arendt herself.

But instead of turning to philosophers or theologians ... (to paraphrase Tim Keller). If life is really just a collection of experiences and memories, is the meaning of life then to be found ...