PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Existentialism, The Strongest
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Provides a joke on the meaning of life, using a joke as a defense mechanism. American traveller seeks the meaning of life out east india. Meaning of life from the holy man: life is a fountain, american gets angry and the holy man says it can"t be a fountain as a joke. Joke: there is no simple answer to the question of the meaning of life. This question requires extensive analysis according to nozick, cannot be a one line answer. This question is so big, you should not confine to philosophical analysis only. Difference sense and kinds of meaning - different meanings of the word. We can stipulate different meanings with words, lives gets ridiculous we can make our lives make it mean anything to us. Life can have a semantic meaning if it refers to an objective property eg. terry.
