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The Meaning of Life

The Meaning of Life (III)

Richard Taylor says that lives are meaningful only if they are creative.

The question, What is the meaning of life? invites either banality or sophistry. The uneducated supply the banalities with such answers as “love”, “service to others” and so on, while a philosopher is apt to say (as one actually did), “either rephrase your question or consult a dictionary.”

Yet it is a serious question and was at the very heart of the classical moral philosophy initiated by Socrates. It is strange indeed, then, that modern moralists, who owe their very subject to the ancients, should treat it with embarrassment and disdain.

The ancients were not primarily concerned with distinguishing moral right and wrong.

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