the case in order for life to have a meaning. Indeed, it is not
   life’s meaning, nor is it clear that life could have such a meaning,
   philosophical discussion of the meaning of life is unfolding within
   1971, 1989)—the human ability to view life sub specie aeternitatis.
   question is asking, (ii) extant views of how a meaningful life can be
    3. The Meaning of Life in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy
   about what would have to be the case for life to have a meaning or
   of life question. When asking these, we are more concerned with the aim
   Meaningfulness, then, perhaps supervenes on a life properly ordered
   is (are) the purpose(s) of life (my life)?” “What makes life valuable?”
   or “What makes life worthwhile and not irredeemably futile?”
3. The Meaning of Life in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy
   Indeed, if one is asking for the semantic meaning of life rather than
   entities, events, or life in general. The problem then is that
   within a linguistic context. However, life itself is not such a
   come back to life in order to return to Rome in all his glory. The
   existentially salient elements and accompanying questions of life fit.
   life themes. They are what often prompt in us the grand question: “What
   (2) Question—Does life have any purpose(s), and if so, what is its
   (3) Fact—we are often passionately engaged in life pursuits and
   purpose(s) of life?”, or “What makes life valuable?”, or “What makes
   life worthwhile and not irredeemably futile?” among others.
   What is the purpose of life, or what makes life valuable, or what makes
   life worthwhile?
   reformulated versions such as, “What makes life valuable?”, “What makes
   life significant?”, “What is (are) the purpose(s) of life?”, “Does a
   particular life achieve some good purpose?”, or “What makes life worth
   find competing views on what gives life meaning, whereby meaningfulness
   is meant. That is to say, by virtue of what can life be said to be
   to ground a meaningful life because, for example, conditions necessary
   theories, where meaning in life is thought to be a function, not so
   life is possible, but denies that a supernatural realm is necessary for
   such a life. Life in a purely physical world, devoid of finite and
   life is a function of appropriately connecting with mind-independent
   naturalism. Rather, meaning is a function of linking one’s life to
   meaningful life is possible apart from something like supernaturalism
   meaningful life varies from person to person, and is a function of one
   some to confer meaningfulness to life (Frankfurt 1988). Subjectivism
   What if someone claims to find meaning in life counting blades of
   people for fun? Can a life centering on such pursuits be a meaningful
   life in general. Subjectivism still has its defenders, with some
   meaningfulness. Meaningfulness is not present in a life spent believing
   neither is it present in a life spent engaging in worthwhile,
   optimistic naturalisms—that is, meaningful life is possible in a
   that a meaningful life can be secured within an entirely naturalistic
   needed to ground those things in life that we, pre-philosophically,
   Roughly, nihilism is the view that denies that a meaningful life is
   or dissatisfaction, arguing that boredom sufficiently infuses life so
   The meaning of life is closely linked with a cluster of related issues
   surrounding death, futility, and the way life is going to end, in
   regards to both the individual life and to the universe as a whole.
   These are common threads in the meaning of life literature, from
   naturalistic view of the ultimate fate of life, both human life as well
   filled with conscious life and its various dimensions. A “bad” ending
   affairs to which life leads. But why give the future priority over the
   present and the past?If life is meaningful now, how can the fact that
   it will cease to exist make it less meaningful now? And, if life is not
   the immediate-present—gets normative priority for appraisals of life as
   meaning of life topics like death and futility. Additionally, it will
   narrated the meaning of life were also religious or quasi-religious.
   profound elements that populate human life within grand narratives that
   questioning the meaning of life with such intensity and angst is
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