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LIFE'S PURPOSE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 December 2014

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Abstract

Does life have meaning? Less grandly, does your life have meaning? Viktor Frankl, Holocaust survivor and author of the classic Man's Search for Meaning (1959), thought that the quest for meaning is the strongest drive humans possess. Without a clear sense of meaning, he said, we drift, lose vitality, and frequently fall into apathy, neurosis, and despair. Yet for many people today, sources of meaning are hard to find.

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2015 

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