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If someone lacks the will to live, can there still be anything he is willing to pursue?
If someone lacks the will to live, can there still be anything he is
willing to pursue?
Freedom.
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Given everything decays and falls apart, does anything matter forever?
Your question contains a number of important ambiguities. The phrase 'it matters' can be applied in the sense of meaning 'I think it matters and will continue to matter after I am gone'. In other ...
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Is there a difference between the purpose of life and the meaning of life?
Do you mean personal meaning and purpose or universal meaning and purpose? I would like to deal with the idea of universal meaning. Firstly, purpose is covered in the field of teleology. That is worth ...
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Is there a difference between the purpose of life and the meaning of life?
There are three aspects:
Self-assigned purpose to your own life.
Externally (God, society, universal truth) assigned purpose to your life.
Effect that your life has on surroundings.
Typically both &...
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Is there a difference between the purpose of life and the meaning of life?
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The meaning of life does not need to have any obvious purpose to reach. It is possible to attempt staying happy with what you have right now, and do not expect anything you do to change your life ...
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Is there a difference between the purpose of life and the meaning of life?
He's not really a philosopher in the sense that you'd read his works in classes, but Pablo Picasso has a unique stance on this question.
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life ...
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Is there a difference between the purpose of life and the meaning of life?
Words like meaning and purpose are open to interpretation, so your question could be approached in quite a few ways, but if we aim straight down the fairway, as it were, I would say that the purpose ...
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