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Introduction: Life’s meaning

Introduction: Life’s meaning We have chosen the subtitle of this introduction with some care—as a term to cover both meaning in life and the meaning of life.For some of the essays in this issue focus primarily on meaning in life—that is to say, they are focussed upon the question ‘how do I make my life worth living?’ Others are focussed primarily upon the meaning of life—that is to say, they are focussed upon the question ‘what are we here to do?’ Within a discussion of life’s meaning it is helpful to distinguish these different foci. They involve different meanings of ‘meaning’. In our keynote essay Joshua Seachris provides a survey of these different meanings. This is not only an important new essay in its own right, we think, but it also provides helpful orientation for the essays that follow.In Seachris’ view, the most fundamental sense of meaning in any discussion of life’s meaning is that which attempts to make a phenomenon intelligible by pointing to its larger context. A request for meaning might also equate to a request for a phenomenon’s purpose or significance but these senses of meaning are less fundamental than that that which asks for the larger context. It http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Human Affairs de Gruyter

Introduction: Life’s meaning

Tartaglia, James; Leach, Stephen
Human Affairs , Volume 29 (4): 4 – Oct 1, 2019
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de Gruyter
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© 2019 Institute for Research in Social Communication, Slovak Academy of Sciences
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10.1515/humaff-2019-0030
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We have chosen the subtitle of this introduction with some care—as a term to cover both meaning in life and the meaning of life.For some of the essays in this issue focus primarily on meaning in life—that is to say, they are focussed upon the question ‘how do I make my life worth living?’ Others are focussed primarily upon the meaning of life—that is to say, they are focussed upon the question ‘what are we here to do?’ Within a discussion of life’s meaning it is helpful to distinguish these different foci. They involve different meanings of ‘meaning’. In our keynote essay Joshua Seachris provides a survey of these different meanings. This is not only an important new essay in its own right, we think, but it also provides helpful orientation for the essays that follow.In Seachris’ view, the most fundamental sense of meaning in any discussion of life’s meaning is that which attempts to make a phenomenon intelligible by pointing to its larger context. A request for meaning might also equate to a request for a phenomenon’s purpose or significance but these senses of meaning are less fundamental than that that which asks for the larger context. It

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