Tag: Purpose

Philosophy

Making Sense of β€œthe Meaning of Life”

Most of this article was written in 2017. I never finished it, but rather abandoned the project halfway Β§12 for reasons explained below. Until the horizontal line separating old from new, the following is the unchanged text of the 2017 draft. Β§1. There is a common idea that philosophy is concerned with figuring out the meaning of life. Although there are exceptions, such as James Tartaglia, most academic philosophers will deny this. But when I ask my students during the first day of class of my β€œIntroduction to Philosophy” course what philosophy is about, then β€œthe meaning of life” is...