Exam 9: Postscript: The Meaning of Life

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How can we understand the question "What is the meaning of life?"? Which way of understanding this question do you think is the most defensible,and why?

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Nihilism is the claim that

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Rudolf Carnap endorsed:

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Soren Kierkegaard described three lifestyles,which he called aesthetic,ethical and

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What philosopher wrote,"The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom"?

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One proponent of the theistic response to the question of whether life has meaning is

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Oswald Spengler believed that the West was in decline.

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Kierkegaard described three lifestyles.

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The view that there is no larger whole or part to which we can contribute is

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Aquinas' view can be called the ____________________ response to the question of meaning.

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Do you believe that the question of whether our lives have meaning can be settled merely by appealing to events that occur during them¾or could events that occur after our lives affect their meaning? For example,suppose that a person spent her life writing a novel that her friend promised to publish posthumously,but as soon as she died her friend destroyed it.Would the posthumous destruction of her work affect the meaning of the novelist's life in any way? Argue for your view here.

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Who claimed that "the one serious question in philosophy" is that of whether life has meaning?

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In this chapter,which of the following philosophers argues that nothing can give life meaning unless we choose it and make it our own?

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For Marx,the perfect future world would be a(n)____________________ society.

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Who said,"So the ultimate purpose of human beings is to know God"?

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What did Hegel argue?

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R.M.Hare argues that nihilism is mistaken.

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Karl Marx denied that history showed progress.

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Richard Taylor believes that life has no meaning.

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Sartre was

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