Introduction: Life’s meaning

Tartaglia, James; Leach, Stephen

Abstract

We have chosen the subtitle of this introduction with some care—as a term to cover both meaning in life and the meaning of life.

For some of the essays in this issue focus primarily on meaning in life—that is to say, they are focussed upon the question ‘how do I make my life worth living?’ Others are focussed primarily upon the meaning of life—that is to say, they are focussed upon the question ‘what are we here to do?’ Within a discussion of life’s meaning it is helpful to distinguish these different foci. They involve different meanings of ‘meaning’. In our keynote essay Joshua Seachris provides a survey of these different meanings. This is not only an important new essay in its own right, we think, but it also provides helpful orientation for the essays that follow.

Citation

Tartaglia, J., & Leach, S. (2019). Introduction: Life’s meaning. Human Affairs, 29(4), 359-362. https://doi.org/10.1515/humaff-2019-0030

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Oct 8, 2019
• Publication Date: Oct 25, 2019
• Deposit Date: Jun 6, 2023
• Journal: Human Affairs
• Electronic ISSN: 1210-3055
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 29
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 359-362
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/humaff-2019-0030
• Keywords: Law; Philosophy; Sociology and Political Science