Meanin of Life

Eric Boggs 10/29/2012 Martin Philosophy The meaning of carriage has been debated among opusy peck through pop history. Different theories have been used to submit and explain what our drive is in this feel. Ive always heard from my parents that bearing is too short for regrets, and that there result be good and speculative days. However what is it that heap strive for in aliveness? In populace there is no right answer to this simple question. Some people strive for animate flavour in the moment which philosopher Baggini can allot with.Others see religion as an definitive way to lead their behaviors as Pojman could agree with. Some like Camus believe its humanly impossible to interpret the meaning of life. Ultimately people must govern it in themselves as to their purpose in this life. Julian Baggini speaks of our purpose in this life that is more appealing than Camus or Pojman. Baggini has a teleological study on life meaning our purpose is looking forward to pr oximo ends and objectives. However Baggini doesnt mean that our purpose is to succeed presently avoiding ain happiness to achieve a get out future.An sample he mentions is when people say I can die happy now because a lifetime fulfillment has been achieved. What is the purpose of life after achieving a broad goal, and in reality Baggini essentially says Why not. There is zippo to live for and the feeling of emptiness settles in as no function will satisfy that lifelong achievement. Baginni says the person who sacrifices too much enjoyment of life to serve the purpose of future wealth and security is thus devising the mistake of overestimating the extent to which is future life will be better than the one he could have now.Most people strive for a rich and fashionable lifestyle, tho at what cost is someone free to make for it. Baggini says what about this rich lifestyle is different than a person who doesnt have these luxuries. Just because someone has a lot of signifi cant happiness doesnt mean that person is happier. In my view I believe Baggini has the closet view on the meaning of life because living life for a nice future while taking advantages of lifes luxuries presently is a meaningful way to live.Personally Im not a deeply religious person, solely I do know people who value religion and incorporate their views in their workaday actions. Pojman argues that religion specifically theistic religion gives meaning to life. Pojman begins by define what it means to be free and self-governing he refers organism autonomous as be self-governed or freedom to make your own choices. Pojman assigns out autonomy is good if it serves a purpose. Whether it is doing good or bad it all the same serves a purpose towards life. Pojman pointed out to key points an atheist women had mentioned to him in the past. matchless being it is more important to be free than autonomous, and the second point being Religion provides a grand meaning or purpose to live, but it does not allow humans to be free or autonomous according to the atheist women. Pojman argues freedom cant be understand apart from the notion of purposiveness. Pojman states in order to be free one has to Act A, when you want to, in order to reach some goal G. However Pojman looked into the bigger picture as to what this atheist cleaning lady was stating. Pojman essentially contradicts her statement with reasoning.Pojman says freedom and autonomy are often nonadjacent from each other, but in theism it is bound together. Pojman way of defining the purpose of life wasnt as appealing to me as Baggini. Religion does duck soup a role in aspects of peoples lives just not enough in my opinion for it to matter. Camus had different views from Pojman and Baggini because he believed life was blotto and meaningless. Suicide was a prominent idea that Camus commonly spoke of. Camus states that self-destruction was implying you were confessing that its not worth the trouble.He used an e xample of a man who killed himself five years after his daughter had passed away. The man simply was to emotionally in electrostatic to return to his normal behaviors. Camus had also mentioned absurdity which he defined a split in a man and his overall life. Camus explained that daily play like working several hours a week and doing the same thing everyday will eventually come to a halt. The question is wherefore? Why do eventually want things to change after having a stable routine life.Camus says this is weariness which possibly leads to the idea of suicide. If something abruptly changes much(prenominal) as death there are two options he implies. One being able to recover what is lost, or the other is suicide. He uses the example of Sisyphus which is a god that was condemned to the underworld. Sisyphus pushes a huge stone to the top of this nap only to roll back to the bottom to do the process from start. Camus implies that this is a usual aspect in peoples lives where being s table and having a routine is sustaining until it collapses.I feel Camus implies what is the point of living such a life if its inevitable that tragedy will likely occur. Ive had friends commit suicide and Ive have often wondered if there was anything I could have take for grantede about. In reality I looked at it from Camus point of view as it provided them a way out and essentially articulate me life is not worth living. There in so end that says how one should live, but merely a reason to find a way to live. Baggini viewed life mostly in the moment as long as happiness and future endeavors were balanced.Pojman had the idea that religion played an important role in ones life while Camus judgment in the end suicide seemed to be the right choice if life became too difficult. Baggini in my opinion had the closet way in see the purpose of life. Baggini explains that happiness in the present with balanced goals in the future should be a way someone should live. I certainly dont wa nt to wait ten years to live a rich lifestyle while family and friends slip away. Life is what one makes it, but the key is finding out what purpose do people find it.