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Susan Wolf, “Meaningfulness” (Open Agenda, 2021)

New Books in Psychology

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Are Your Examples Enough?

Love for other people is the clear example of kinds of things that give meaning to our lives. But i think there's more than one way in which love motivates us, and it's not all about people. In addition to loving individual people, we can also love fields such as art or philosophy. I wanted to use a word that's generalis enough to say 'loved' rather than 'sought', but t doesn't explain why we're doing themn.

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