PHIL 1100 Lecture : The Meaning of Life

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Begins by pointing out that the question of the meaning of life is so heavily laden with our emotion and aspiration. Jokes should be taken in a freudian manner. Maybe this is why we make jokes about the meaning of life, it"s a defence mechanism. He argues against simplistic answers in the sense of a formula. We shouldn"t use these jokes and one liners to seek out the meaning of life. It will be the result of extensive analysis to understand the meaning of life. He does a typical western thing, he looks at different senses and kinds of meaning. It is naive to think that there is only one meaning. Some of these overlap with the analyses done by other philosophers we have looked at in this course. The fact that we exist means that we have parents. It also means that every single one of our ancestors goes far back and has produced at least one child.

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