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<p>According to purpose theory (PT), God’s existence, telic creation of human beings, and human libertarian free will are necessary conditions for human life to be objectively meaningful. In this paper, I raise and respond to four objections to PT: two concerning insufficiencies and two regarding ambiguities in the theory. I conclude that PT-advocates have relatively effective replies to the second insufficiency objection and to both ambiguity objections, but that PT is vulnerable to the first insufficiency objection.</p>
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According to purpose theory (PT), God’s existence, telic creation of human beings, and human libertarian free will are necessary conditions for human life to be objectively meaningful. In this paper, I raise and respond to four objections to PT: two concerning insufficiencies and two regarding ambiguities in the theory. I conclude that PT-advocates have relatively effective replies to the second insufficiency objection and to both ambiguity objections, but that PT is vulnerable to the first insufficiency objection.

An Investigation of Conditions for the Meaning of Life

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According to purpose theory (PT), God’s existence, telic creation of human beings, and human libertarian free will are necessary conditions for human life to...

An Investigation of Conditions for the Meaning of Life

Online veröffentlicht: 27. Feb. 2023

Seitenbereich: 22 - 38

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/perc-2023-0002

Schlüsselwörter
purpose, meaning, value, certainty, absurdity

© 2023 Elliott R. Crozat, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

An Investigation of Conditions for the Meaning of Life

Online veröffentlicht: 27. Feb. 2023

Seitenbereich: 22 - 38

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/perc-2023-0002

Schlüsselwörterpurpose, meaning, value, certainty, absurdity

© 2023 Elliott R. Crozat, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Schlüsselwörter
purpose, meaning, value, certainty, absurdity