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New Developments in the Meaning of Life
Author(s) -
Metz Thaddeus
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
philosophy compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.973
H-Index - 25
ISSN - 1747-9991
DOI - 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2007.00061.x
Subject(s) - meaning (existential) , epistemology , meaning of life , psychology , meaningful life , linguistics , sociology , philosophy , social psychology
In this article I survey philosophical literature on the topic of what, if anything, makes a person's life meaningful, focusing on systematic texts that are written in English and that have appeared in the last five years. My aims are to present overviews of the most important, fresh, Anglo‐American positions on meaning in life and to raise critical questions about them worth answering in future work.