Virgil Loatman: The philosophical question "What is the meaning of life?" means different things to different people. The vagueness of the query is inherent in the word "meaning", which opens the question to many interpretations, such as: "What is the origin of life?", "What is the nature of life (and of the universe in which we live)?", "What is the significance of life?", "What is valuable in life?", and "What is the purpose of, or in, (one's) life?". These questions have resulted in a wide range of competing answers and arguments, from scientific theories, to philosophical, theological, and spiritual explanations.These questions are separate from the scientific issue of the boundary between things with life and inanimate objects.Popular beliefs"What is the meaning of life?" is a question many people ask themselves at some point during their lives, most in the context "What is the purpose of life?" Here are some of the many potential answers to this perplexing question.! The responses are shown to overlap in many ways but may be grouped into the following categories:Survival and temporal success...to live every day like it is your last and to do your best at everything that comes before you...to be always satisfied...to live, go to school, work, and die...to participate in natural human evolution, or to contribute to the gene pool of the human race...to advance technological evolution, or to actively develop the future of intelligent life...to compete or co-operate with others...to destroy others who harm you, or to practice nonviolence and nonresistance...to gain and exercise power...to leave a legacy, such as a work of art or a book...to eat...to prepare for death...to spend life in the pursuit of happiness, maybe not to obtain it, but to pursue it relentlessly....to produce offspring through sexual reproduction (alike to participating in evolution)...to protect and preserve one's kin, clan, or tribe (akin to participating in evolution).! ..to seek freedom, either physically, mentally or financially.! ..to observe the ultimate fate of humanity to the furthest possible extent...to seek happiness and flourish, experience pleasure or celebrate...to survive, including the pursuit of immortality through scientific means...to attempt to have many sexual conquests (as in Arthur Schopenhauer's will to procreate)...to find and take over all free space in this "game" called life...to seek and find beauty...to kill or be killed...No point. Since having a point is a condition of living human consciousness. Animals do not need a point to live or exist. It is more of an affliction of consciousness that there are such things as points, a negative side to evolutionary development for lack of better words.Wisdom and knowledge...to master and know everything...to be without questions, or to keep asking questions...to expand one's perception of the world...to explore, to expand beyond our frontiers...to learn from one's own and others' mistakes...to seek truth, knowledge, understanding, or! wisdom...to understand and be mindful of creation or the cosmos...to lead the world towards a desired situation...to satisfy the natural curiosity felt by humans about lifeEthical...to express compassion...to follow the "Golden Rule"...to give and receive love...to work for justice and freedom...to live in peace with yourself and each other, and in harmony with our natural environment...to protect humanity, or more generally the environment...to serve others, or do good deedsReligious and spiritual...to find perfect love and a complete expression of one's humanness in a relationship with God...to achieve a supernatural connection within the natural context...to achieve enlightenment and inner peace...to become like God, or divine...to glorify God...to experience personal justice (i.e. to be rewarded for goodness)...to experience existence from an infinite number of perspectives in order to expand the consciousness of all there is (i.e. to seek objectivity)...to be a filter! of creation between heaven and hell...to produce useful structure in t! he universe over and above consumption (see net creativity)...to reach Heaven in the afterlife...to seek and acquire virtue, to live a virtuous life...to turn fear into joy at a constant rate achieving on literal and metaphorical levels: immortality, enlightenment, and atonement...to understand and follow the "Word of God"...to discover who you are...to resolve all problems that one faces, or to ignore them and attempt to fully continue life without them, or to detach oneself from all problems facedPhilosophical...to give life meaning...to participate in the chain of events which has led from the creation of the universe until its possible end (either freely chosen or determined, this is a subject widely debated amongst philosophers)...to know the meaning of life...to achieve self-actualisation...all possible meanings have some validity...life in itself has no meaning, for its purpose is an opportunity to create that meaning, therefore:...to die...to simply live until one d! ies (there is no universal or celestial purpose)...nature taking its course (the wheel of time keeps on turning)...whatever you see you see, as in "projection makes perception"...there is no purpose or meaning whatsoever...life may actually not exist, or may be illusory )...to contemplate "the meaning of the end of life"Other...to contribute to collective meaning ("we" or "us") without having individual meaning ("I" or "me")...to find a purpose, a "reason" for living that hopefully raises the quality of one's experience of life, or even life in general...to participate in the inevitable increase in entropy of the universe...to make conformists' lives miserable...to make life as difficult as possible for others (i.e. to compete)-
Estrella Northway: Science answers the questions "what" and "how" as someone pointed above.Philosophy arouses questions and answers "why". There will always be things to discover, consider, ponder about. And while science is oh so great, as y! ou point out, it is philosophy that pushes the limits of the human mind! and makes us strive to know more.Which is why they will both be relevant tomorrow and a thousand years from now....Show more
Dallas Bartolini: No, who said this?
Denna Prudente: Problems are always on their way to being solved, but it's a good thing to know the difference between those two, big difference.Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know...Bertrand Russell.Good luck!...Show more
Monty Sieloff: A proposition is something that can be true or false. Typically this means it has a subject and a predicate.
Armando Somes: No.Sorry, I meant yes. "No" is for the last part of your details.
Francis Stickle: I don't think so, but not for the reasons you cited. In fact, I would love to be pointed in the direction of those who are close to solving what it means to be conscious. I believe that philosophy is irrelevant because reason is no longer relevant. Many things seem close, but I still don't have a flying car or a robot to bab! y sit my kids, so I wouldn't burn the Kant and Rand books for firewood just yet.
Danica Timperman: Anyone well versed in philosophy esp in the realm of ethics, please answer.
Hal Rouse: IMO...philosophy is the backbone of our society, it provides possible explanations as to why people do what they do. There will always be entities that science cannot solve.It will always be relevant whether we care to agree with it or not. Thanks...Show more
Gaylord Barragan: Absolutely not...
Cherlyn Tefera:
Joesph Smithmyer: what is your oppinion? noone is right or wrong, its all based on oppinion! please feel free to share!
Dorinda Metzer: Well, if you don't have aim or a target, you might shoot somebody.
Javier Holsonback: Apart from "stay alive and healthy for as long as possible" no one needs to have any other aims and targets in their life.However to accomplish anything is it better to make your dream firm by turning it into a goal. This ma! y be done by use of the SMART framework.
Ricky Frazer: No I ran o! ut long ago or I wouldn't be doing this.
Elvie Drumgoole: Well... the good ones still remain relevant...Philosophies like every other thing, doesn't last... by the test of time... just the good... general quotes stand the test of time..Cheers!!!!...Show more
Elvie Drumgoole: hmmm necessary for what?to have aims and targets..i think what tends to happen when one does not have clear cut goals and ideals but if one h as aims that are less than ideal but are self centered ratherthen one loses sights of ones true and happy relationship to the wholewhile if one goes into denial of the importance of having clear cut ideals and goalsthen one can become driven by hidden agendas that allow ones essential self to become needlessly drained of the full joys of life
Elva Batie: This is an oversimplification. Science is a branch in philosophy ( even though, a lot of people deny this but they're simply deluding themselves ), empiricism, rationalism, deductive reasoning, ! phenomenology, epistemology, metaphysics etc. are all philosophical ( along with cultural and religious) impacts that shaped modern Science. Secondly, it is argued that philosophical problems are often refined rather than solved."Philosophy is to be studied not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves. " Bertrand Russel.There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination.Even Science is based on assumptions and foundations, it doesn't focus on answering philosophical questions about " Truth " but providing mechanical explanations to phenomenons....Show more
An Trebil: It is more relevant than ever because science is leading people away from the true answer not getting them closer to it.
Shaun Rapkowicz: I think so because having a goal is natural. l! ike remember when you were younger and you thought you wanted to be a d! octer or something? Well that is an aim or target people just do it naturaly.
Rosalyn Olivera: Your question is philosophically based.
Truman Biby: Reality is ever-changing, so is life. So is philosophy as well, since it seeks answers about both categories. It aims to describe and give an explanation to everything, just like how science works. But is everything fixed? With that said, I doubt this subject will be thrown in the trash. The abstract will intertwine with the concrete in one's point of view; philosophy might weaken, might be forgotten, but it will not die.
Eulah Hugill: Science has no concept of justice. No concept of purpose. No concept of mercy. No concept of compassion. No concept of morality.
Marty Tichnell: As someone else mentioned, science is a branch of philosophy (specifically in the empirical family of epistemology). That being said, empiricism as a whole has its limits and problems - I recommend reading Berkeley's "A Treatis! e Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge" and Hume's "An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding". These philosophers discuss what can be known via sensible perception and what, necessarily, cannot.
Angel Klym: nope
Everette Rovinsky: If you ask a scientist WHY life is, he will tell you how. Ask a philosipher and he will tell you why. Meaning that Philosophy will always be there to ponder on the intentions of the universe. Esoteric and Rosecrucian teachings have been passed down for thousands of years. It is possible that in the near future Philosophy will be more of a left hand path though.
Foster Padgette: If you do not want to wake up at age 65 and wonder where it all went. Goals do not have to be specific. For instance, at 13, I knew i needed college but i had no idea what I wanted to take. At 20, I saw my career in the human services. By 30, I know i was both a teacher and administrator in my field. By 40, I knew i had knowledge others might use ! and wrote books about it. At 65, I knew that retirement needed to be mo! re than sitting around so I started a business, wrote another book and am busier than i was at 13 when i was still trying to decide what to do with my life.
Zelma Casebier: It depends on what you were given birth on
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