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Susan Wolf on Meaning in Life

Philosophy Bites

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The Importance of Objective Value in Meaningfulness

The idea of meaning is the idea of doing something that you're subjectively very attracted to, engaged by and excited by. If I didn't love philosophy, then it wouldn't give meaning to my life to keep banging my head against the wall to get a better article. But if what I loved was not philosophy but Sudoku's - that also wouldn't be objectively valuable. So his view is that Sartre's view in the end collapses, that that's not meaningfulness.

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