“Happiness without meaning characterizes a relatively shallow, self-absorbed or even selfish life, in which things go well, needs and desire are easily satisfied, and difficult or taxing entanglements ...

Some people have confided with me, occasionally in great embarrassment, that they are not at all busy with the meaning of their lives. They are not wondering what the meaning of their lives is. They ...

In a reply to a recent post I published on death and the meaning of life, a reader identified as Anonymous wrote, among other things, "I think life is meaningless in a vacuum. One imposes value upon ...

Absurdism accepts that life has no inherent meaning and argues that the only honest response is to embrace that fact and live as fully as possible anyway.

When the meaning of life is brought up, the usual attitude towards it is mystification. Few people in modern times take the meaning of life for granted. They assume that it is the same as the mystery ...

One viewpoint: Without the idea of cosmic order or divine design, life will lack depth, direction, framework, moral foundation, purpose, etc. It will lose human aspiration and significance, reverence ...

There are moments in life when everything feels strangely empty. You wake up, go through daily routines, meet people, finish tasks, yet something feels missing. The question quietly appears in the ...