Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iddo Landau
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Good Source ◽  
Religious People ◽  
Finding Meaning ◽  
The World ◽  
Meaningful Lives

After explaining what meaning in life is, the book moves to criticizing certain presuppositions about the meaning of life that unnecessarily lead many people to believe that their lives are meaningless. Among others, it criticizes perfectionism about meaning in life, namely, the assumption that meaningful lives must include some perfection or some rare and difficult achievements. It then responds to recurring arguments made by people who take their lives to be meaningless, such as the arguments claiming that life is meaningless because death eventually annihilates us and everything we do; whatever we do is negligible when examined in the context of the whole universe; we have no free will and, thus, deserve no praise for what we achieve; everything, including meaning, is completely relative; we do not know what the purpose of life is; whenever we achieve something we stop sensing it as valuable; and there is so much suffering and evil in the world. The book also offers strategies that may help people identify what is meaningful in life and increase its meaningfulness. The final chapters consider questions such as whether only religious people can have meaningful lives; whether meaning of life should be discussed only by psychologists; and whether existentialism is a good source of guidance on the meaning of life.

Conclusion I

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iddo Landau
Keyword(s):  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Existence Of God ◽  
Good Source ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
Immortality Of The Soul ◽  
Made In

This is the first of the two concluding chapters, both of which address general questions about meaning in life and the claims made in this book. Does this book discuss our perceptions of meaning in life or meaning in life itself? Do we find meaning or create it? Suppose that religious claims about the existence of God and the immortality of the soul are incorrect; could life still be deemed meaningful? Is it true that issues relating to the meaning of life are in the sole domain of psychology and psychiatry? And is existentialism a good source of guidance on the meaning of life?

Garīgums un pasaules redzējums augstākās izglītības kontekstā

2020 ◽  
pp. 39-48
Author(s):  
Lāsma Latsone ◽  
Dzintra Iliško
Keyword(s):  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Spiritual Experiences ◽  
Search For Meaning ◽  
Philosophy Of Life ◽  
Higher Power ◽  
The World

Spirituality and worldview are broad concepts with many different understandings and perspectives. They include a sense of connection to a higher power, as well as a search for answers to existential questions of life. Human spiritual experiences can be described as sacred or transcendental, or as an awareness that everything in this world is deeply united and always in the process. There are people who associate their spiritual experiences with a particular religion, others seek this unity in nature, in music, and also in their relationships. Spirituality is essentially about the great questions of life and the search for the meaning of life, but to everyone it can mean something different. This study explores students' perceptions of the role of spirituality in their lives and education by surveying students at two Latvian universities, focusing on the diversity of their perceptions of the world, their sources of spiritual nourishment and their quest for spirituality. Universities need to address issues of spirituality, different religions and worldviews, which often coexist in the context of contemporary diversity. The results of the study reveal students' interest in spirituality-related experiences and their search for meaning in life and for meaningful philosophy of life, often associated with scepticism towards traditional religious offerings but showing openness to an ecumenical approach to religions.

Neutrality and Meaning

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meghan Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Meaning In Life ◽  
The Past ◽  
Finding Meaning ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

This chapter considers and rejects the Temporal Argument for Nihilism: (1)The meaningfulness of an activity, at a time, depends upon it making a permanent difference in the world. (2) Nothing we can do will make a permanent difference in the world. (C) Nothing we can do has meaning now. Thechapter rejects (1) and proposes a way of finding meaning in life by appealing to temporal neutrality. First the chapter considers cases from Scheffler and Shiffrin which motivate (1). Next, the chapter considers two strategies for blocking this result: subjectivism about meaning and heavenly optimism. Both strategies are found wanting. However, if we embrace temporal neutrality then events can have meaning through connections with events either in the future or in the past. The chapter concludes with a temporally neutral response to nihilism.

scholarly journals Pemaknaan Hidup Survivor Kanker Serviks selama Terapi Pengobatan: Literature Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-25
Author(s):  
Regina Aprilia Roberto ◽  
Wahyu Hidayati
Keyword(s):  
Cervical Cancer ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Cancer Survivor ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Treatment Process ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Life Meaning ◽  
Inclusion Criteria ◽  
Finding Meaning ◽  
Cervical Cancer Survivor

Introduction: Cervical cancer treatment process proves to make women experiencing emotional distress that brings new problems in life. Women with cervical cancer who undergo treatment suffer affecting all aspects of life that impact on the meaning of life. There is limited literature review regarding life meaning resources and technique used by women with cervical cancer who undergo treatment. The aim of this study is to find out description about the meaningfulness in life of cervical cancer survivor during treatment period based on sources and technique of finding meaning. Methods: This study used literature review method. The literature search engines used are SCOPUS, SINTA and Google Scholar. The inclusion criteria of article were articles in Indonesian or English, containing sources and techniques for finding meaning in abstract, respondents cervical cancer survivor and published from 2011 to 2020.  Results: Eleven articles show the existence of meaning in life build upon sources of meaning in life including creative, experimental, attitudinal, and hopeful values. Moreover, there are techniques in seeking meaning involving self-understanding, positive action, familiarity with relationships, deepening the values of the meaning of life and worship. Conclusion: The beginning of treatment process results feelings of meaningless, but efforts to make sense of life remain. Family support and spirituality were found to be the things that give the most meaning for cervical cancer survivors to survive.  

Consciousness, law of nature, and nomological determinism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoyang Yu
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Important Thing ◽  
Law Of Nature ◽  
The World ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Brain

Nomological determinism does not mean everything is predictable. It just means everything follows the law of nature. And the most important thing Is that the brain and consciousness follow the law of nature. In other words, there is no free will. Without life, brain and consciousness, the world follows law of nature, that is clear. The life and brain are also part of nature, and they follow the law of nature. This is due to scientific findings. There are not enough scientific findings for consciousness yet. But I think that the consciousness is a nature phenomenon, and it also follows the law of nature.

World trade of beet pulp pellets

2016 ◽  
pp. 501-504
Author(s):  
Sergey Gudoshnikov
Keyword(s):  
World Trade ◽  
Sugar Industry ◽  
World Market ◽  
Good Source ◽  
The World ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Beet Pulp ◽  
Animal Feeding ◽  
Additional Income ◽  
Pulp Production

Beet pulp remaining after the extraction of sugar from beet is a good source of highly digestible fibre and energy used for animal feeding. Beet pulp is mostly used domestically but about 15% of global dried beet pulp production is exported to the world market. Although pulp have only little value as compared to sugar, sales of it abroad help generate additional income for the sugar industry with relatively low overheads. In contrast to sugar where import markets are protected by tariffs and non-tariff barriers while export volumes can be heavily regulated by governments, these restrictions are much less extensive for beet pulp trade. This article reviews recent developments in the world trade in beet pulp. The context of the article is based on the ISO study “World Trade of Molasses and Beet Pulp” MECAS(16)06.

scholarly journals Multi-group confirmatory factor analysis of the life attitude profile in Chilean adolescents

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Imbarack Dagach ◽  
Cristian Brotfeld ◽  
Joaquín García-Alandete
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analysis ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Factorial Structure ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Structure Reliability ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
The World ◽  
Assessment Bias ◽  
Acceptable Internal Consistency

AbstractAdolescents are challenged to take decisions about issues associated to the vital circle and the comprehension of the world. Meaning in life (MiL) takes a leading role in adolescence. Reker and Peacock developed the Life Attitude Profile (LAP) for assessing MiL, and Erci developed a revised version (LAP-R). The main objective of this study was to analyze the factorial structure, reliability, invariance across gender, and absence/presence of assessment bias of a Spanish adaptation of the Turkish LAP-R among 2138 Chilean adolescents (1205 boys, 912 girls, and 8 others), who were studying in 3rd and 4th year. The LAP-R showed an acceptable structural validity, acceptable internal consistency, and invariance across gender. MiL as a significant domain of human experience in adolescents.

The Divided Self in the Fiction of Henry James

PMLA ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 447-460
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Henry James ◽  
Free Spirit ◽  
Divided Self ◽  
Structural Consequence ◽  
The World ◽  
To Come

AbstractThe divided self in James’s fiction may be regarded as an inevitable structural consequence of James’s desire to dramatize the problem of the free spirit in an enslaving world. But the divided self required by art is not essentially different from the divided self known to psychology, and an understanding of the anxieties of that self, particularly of the “obsessive imagery” James uses to depict those anxieties, enriches our understanding of James’s work. The fear of a world that threatens one’s being issues in an elaborate development of an escape motif; of imagery of seizure by the eye and by the world of appearances; and of imagery of petrification, reflecting a dread of being turned into a mere tool or machine. James’s vision of “the great trap of life” permits him to come to terms with his own limitations and culminates in a searching philosophic examination of the problem of free will and determinism.

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