Making Sense of โthe Meaning of Lifeโ
Most of this article was written in 2017. I never finished it, but rather abandoned the project halfway ยง12 for reasons explained below. Until the horizontal line separating old from new, the following is the unchanged text of the 2017 draft. ยง1. There is a common idea that philosophy is concerned with figuring out the meaning of life. Although there are exceptions, such as James Tartaglia, most academic philosophers will deny this. But when I ask my students during the first day of class of my โIntroduction to Philosophyโ course what philosophy is about, then โthe meaning of lifeโ is...