Meaning In Life And Why It Matters, By Susan Wolf
Meaning in life (Wolf, 2010)
Introduction
Susan Wolf is known as a philosopher, she wrote a book in 2010 known as Meaning In Life And Why It Matters. In this book Wolf give a sophisticated philosophical argument on the importance of meaningfulness in life. This book consist of two short lectures here I am going to summarize the first lecture of this book she mainly attributes the idea of meaningfulness in life and present this idea in such a way as it look well-intentioned for ourselves and for others especially for our loved ones (Wolf, 2010). She explores how we can interpret a life as a meaningful life and how we can get such a life. Now I will consider her full account in detail and then finally I will put some objection and criticism on …show more content…
According to this view meaningfulness in life can be rise when our action or larger than our self such as in the Sisyphus example her life has subjective values, but lack of any objectivity so that it is hard to say that his life was meaningful. Wolf (2010) describes it as a Biprate view – meaningful life has not only fulfillment (subjective values), but also consider something larger than oneself (objective values). Moreover, she explains that these two points are not enough to describe meaningfulness in life, such as if Sisyphus rolling a stone, giving him fulfillment and may be due to his action he try to spread terror in enemies than his action also larger than oneself but still not meaningful because it give no value to his own life (Wolf, 2010). After that Wolf explore a view known as “The Fitting Fulfillment View” according to this our passion and values for own self both are important for meaningful life (Wolf, 2010). As Thomas Negal explain it “take a view from nowhere” (P.28) in other word a meaningful act not only meaningful for oneself, but also other people are considering it as a meaningful (Wolf,
Introduction
Susan Wolf is known as a philosopher, she wrote a book in 2010 known as Meaning In Life And Why It Matters. In this book Wolf give a sophisticated philosophical argument on the importance of meaningfulness in life. This book consist of two short lectures here I am going to summarize the first lecture of this book she mainly attributes the idea of meaningfulness in life and present this idea in such a way as it look well-intentioned for ourselves and for others especially for our loved ones (Wolf, 2010). She explores how we can interpret a life as a meaningful life and how we can get such a life. Now I will consider her full account in detail and then finally I will put some objection and criticism on …show more content…
According to this view meaningfulness in life can be rise when our action or larger than our self such as in the Sisyphus example her life has subjective values, but lack of any objectivity so that it is hard to say that his life was meaningful. Wolf (2010) describes it as a Biprate view – meaningful life has not only fulfillment (subjective values), but also consider something larger than oneself (objective values). Moreover, she explains that these two points are not enough to describe meaningfulness in life, such as if Sisyphus rolling a stone, giving him fulfillment and may be due to his action he try to spread terror in enemies than his action also larger than oneself but still not meaningful because it give no value to his own life (Wolf, 2010). After that Wolf explore a view known as “The Fitting Fulfillment View” according to this our passion and values for own self both are important for meaningful life (Wolf, 2010). As Thomas Negal explain it “take a view from nowhere” (P.28) in other word a meaningful act not only meaningful for oneself, but also other people are considering it as a meaningful (Wolf,