PHIL 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Subjectivism, Aspirin, Mother Teresa
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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it"s all over much too soon . What are we asking exactly when we ask about life"s meaning. There is no answer to the question of life"s meaning because words have meaning not life or persons or the universe . The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem . Three ways of posing the question for human existence. Without knowing what i am and why i am here, life is impossible - leo tolstoy. The moment a man questions the meaning and value of life, he is sick - All existing things are born for no reason, continue through weakness and die by accident it"s meaningless that we are born and it"s meaningless that we die - How the problem of meaning arises or reasons for thinking life lacks meaning.
