Tag: "meaning of life"

The Meaning of Life: A tribute to the late Douglas Adams

Did you feel a tiny bit frustrated when Douglas Adams told us in The Hitchhikers’ Guide To the Galaxy that the meaning of life was 42? Tim LeBon did and wondered what interplanetary wanderer Arthur Dent might have concluded if he’d met some real philosophers.
[Issue 33: September/October 2001: Short Story]

What’s It All About?

by Rick Lewis
[Issue 24: Summer 1999: Editorial]

The Frame of Meaning

Dominic Kirkham exhorts us to find meaning in the present moment.
[Issue 24: Summer 1999: The Meaning of Life]

The Meaning of Life (I)

Antony Flew on Tolstoy’s obsession.
[Issue 24: Summer 1999: The Meaning of Life]

Can a Life of Child-rearing Be Meaningful?

Sarah Conly on devoting one’s life to another.
[Issue 24: Summer 1999: The Meaning of Life]

The Meaning of Life (II)

Roger Ames on a Chinese approach.
[Issue 24: Summer 1999: The Meaning of Life]

Meaning and Purpose

J.J.C. Smart investigates the meaning of purpose.
[Issue 24: Summer 1999: The Meaning of Life]

What’s the meaning of all this?

Brenda Almond on the pursuit of wisdom.
[Issue 24: Summer 1999: The Meaning of Life]

The Meaning of Life (III)

Richard Taylor says that lives are meaningful only if they are creative.
[Issue 24: Summer 1999: The Meaning of Life]

In Praise of the Meaningless Life

Bob Sharpe asks if you can have value without meaning (to).
[Issue 24: Summer 1999: The Meaning of Life]