The Meaning of Life as a Subject of Philosophical Reflection

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10.2991/iccessh-18.2018.15How to use a DOI?

Keywords

meaning of life; human nature; value; freedom; duty; supreme good; ideal

Abstract

The article concerns the meaning of life issue that has been a fundamental problem of philosophical reflection for ages. Every generation introduces own connotations to it. In modern culture, a tendency of spreading addictive forms of behavior is being observed, and, as a result, the formation of a "conceptual vacuum" around the problem of the meaning of life. On the other hand, in the postmodern world the problem of the meaning of life becomes more urgent than ever. In the paper, we consider the main meaning-of-life orientations and their philosophical justifications.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Sergey Lokhov
AU  - Dmitry Mamchenkov
AU  - Daria Tavberidze
PY  - 2018/07
DA  - 2018/07
TI  - The Meaning of Life as a Subject of Philosophical Reflection
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 63
EP  - 67
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iccessh-18.2018.15
DO  - 10.2991/iccessh-18.2018.15
ID  - Lokhov2018/07
ER  -