Susan Wolf On The Meaning Of Life

According to Richard Taylor and Susan Wolf's views on the meaning of life, they both have very different perspectives when it comes to this matter. Taylor seems to argue that the meaning of life is about an result of satisfaction. Taylor begins by observing that it is difficult in the first place to even cope what it means to question whether life has meaning, and that the question is too challenging to answer. Taylor argues that all life as we know it is whether viewed from a very big perspective, or at the level of one person and that life is nothing but a big look of struggles and attempts that ultimately lead to nothing or something pointless in that matter. The only thing that we must live through is how it will always be repeating itself, more like a never-ending cycle. There is no end about the struggles that are lead to that could reason or have claim to meaning. In this perspective, Taylor believes, our lives are meaningless. On
He gives thought about the existence of non-human animals—endless cycles of eating and being eaten, fish swimming upstream only to die and have offspring repeat the process, birds flying halfway around the globe only to return and have others do likewise according to Chapter 52 in The Meaning of Life. He concludes that these lives are meaningless. I strongly disagree to Taylor’s point of view. Based from my religion and how I was raised, I powerfully believe that everything living on this earth has a purpose. Everyone and everything has a reason and duty to fulfill while they are still living the way that he, she, they, or it lives in their life. When Taylor gives the analogy of animals being eaten, I just think that is just how our world works. It is the circle of life. When it’s time to past away, that’s when it’s your or their time to go. Vice versa, with being born into this