I’m reminded to an extent of Kafka’s short parable “On Parables”.
This ambiguity between “meaning” and “purpose” when talking about life and philosophy has been a frequent headache in conversation for me. People frequently have a sense that “meaning” refers to communication of some kind, and it makes talking about the “meaning of life” rather confusing. Out of curiosity, who are the “roughly correct” people you’re talking about with respect to the meaning of life?
I was thinking of Aristotle, for one, but really not anything exclusive. What you hear in many religious traditions, for example, or from psychologists and self-help books. But "roughly correct" insofar as the initial question is indeterminate, so they end up asking and answering slightly different questions, and I am not endorsing every aspect of their answers.
I also gave answers myself that I think are roughly correct in earlier places on the blog. I'll do it again in the next post and then what I intended here might be clearer.
I’m reminded to an extent of Kafka’s short parable “On Parables”.
This ambiguity between “meaning” and “purpose” when talking about life and philosophy has been a frequent headache in conversation for me. People frequently have a sense that “meaning” refers to communication of some kind, and it makes talking about the “meaning of life” rather confusing. Out of curiosity, who are the “roughly correct” people you’re talking about with respect to the meaning of life?
I was thinking of Aristotle, for one, but really not anything exclusive. What you hear in many religious traditions, for example, or from psychologists and self-help books. But "roughly correct" insofar as the initial question is indeterminate, so they end up asking and answering slightly different questions, and I am not endorsing every aspect of their answers.
I also gave answers myself that I think are roughly correct in earlier places on the blog. I'll do it again in the next post and then what I intended here might be clearer.