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How to live?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 June 2007

John Shand
Affiliation:
The Open University

Extract

This paper is not about truth but about consistency. Pointing to inconsistency would be a dry worthless exercise were there not people who are inconsistent in the specific way described and for whom such inconsistency matters. There are those who tell us that life has no value and is pointless, that it is ‘absurd’, and yet that it matters how we live our lives; in particular that we ought to square up to the truth that life has no value and is pointless. Philosophy and art, especially in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, have often seen this view in the ascendant when they get onto the issue of ‘the meaning of life’.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2007

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