Death Prevents Our Lives From Being Meaningful
This article seeks to show that death prevents one’s life from being meaningful on balance. Proponents of what has come to be known as the ‘imperfection thesis’ about life’s meaning claim that it is sufficient for one’s life to be meaningful that one relates to only a non-maximal conceivable value....
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| Tipo de documento: | Recurso Electrónico Artigo |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
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2024
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TheoLogica
Ano: 2024, Volume: 8, Número: 1, Páginas: 102-127 |
| Classificações IxTheo: | NBE Antropologia NBQ Escatologia VA Filosofia |
| Outras palavras-chave: | B
Imperfection
B Finitude B Life B Death B Meaning |
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| Resumo: | This article seeks to show that death prevents one’s life from being meaningful on balance. Proponents of what has come to be known as the ‘imperfection thesis’ about life’s meaning claim that it is sufficient for one’s life to be meaningful that one relates to only a non-maximal conceivable value. In many, if not all, contexts, holding the imperfection thesis appears to be the sole reason for supposing that death need not prevent one’s life from being meaningful. Counter to this, it is argued that there is good reason to believe that the imperfection thesis is false, that arguments in favour of the imperfection thesis fail, and that attempts to show that the imperfection thesis can counter the arguments against it in a principled way are unsuccessful. Given this, it can be concluded that the imperfection thesis is false, and so there is no reason for supposing that death need not prevent one’s life from being meaningful. |
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| ISSN: | 2593-0265 |
| Obras secundárias: | Enthalten in: TheoLogica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.14428/thl.v8i1.63193 |
