01 explain the meaning of life

OBJECTIVES
reflect on the meaning of
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your own life
 01

Arthur
Schopenhauer
Since a man does not alter, and his moral
character remains absolutely the same all
through his life; since he must play out the
part which he has received, without the least
deviation from the character; since neither
experience, nor philosophy, nor religion can
effect any improvement in him, the question
arises, What is the meaning of life at all?
(1860b) [emphasis added]
According to [Schopenhauer], we are all caught up
in a hopeless cycle of wanting things, getting them,
and then wanting more things. It doesn’t stop until
we die. Whenever we seem to get what we want,
we start wanting something else. You might think
you would be content if you were a millionaire, but
you wouldn’t be for long. You’d want something
you hadn’t got. Human beings are like that. We’re
never satisfied, never stop craving for more than
we have. It’s all very depressing.’
We have to be responsible for our own
existence. Each of us knows that he is a
unique person, but few have the energy,
courage, or insight to throw off the husks of
convention and achieve a sincere
realization of their potentialities, and no one
can do that for us. However, unless we do
“become ourselves,” life is meaningless.
the goal of human life is to turn away from
desire. Salvation can only be found in
resignation.
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Martin
Heidegger
To live a life authenticity is to live a life that one
oneself chooses, not the life that is prescribed
for one by one's social situation. To live a life of
authenticity, one must have a plan, something
that unifies one's life into an organic whole.
This is one's own plan. So a meaningful life is
one of focused authenticity. "Authenticity is
Heidegger's accounted of what it is to live a
meaningful life."
The world is a holy place. To understand and
appreciate that fact is to exhibit not just a
certain intellectual and practical stance toward
the world, but to live with an attitude of respect
and reverence toward the world, toward the
natural world especially. The meaning of life is
guardianship of the world.
human existence is exhibited in care. Care
is understood in terms of finite temporality,
which reaches with death.Death is a
possibility that happens; all possibilities are
evaluated in this light, when one lives with a
resoluteness, which brings unity and
wholeness to the scattered self. Eternity
does not enter the picture, for wholeness is
attainable within humanity’s finite
temporality.
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Jean-Paul
Sartre
our fundamental goal in life is to overcome our
'contingency'," to become the foundation of our
own being. The main obstacle (again) is other
people who, on the one hand, pursue their own
(different) goals and, on the other, propose a
real (military) threat to one's way of life and
one's homeland
The person, first of all exists, encounters
himself, surges up in the world, and defines
himself afterward. The person is nothing
else but that what he makes of himself. The
person is provided with a supreme
opportunity to give meaning to one’s life. In
the course of giving meaning to one’s life,
one fills the world with meaning.