An appetizer: purpose | Meaningness

Five confused attitudes to life purpose, as an introduction to meaningness.

Let’s start this book in the middle. The main course is a ways off, and I want to give you a taste now. Let’s talk about purpose . (Purpose is one of the dimensions of meaningness discussed in this book.) Especially at turning points in life, people ask questions like: Is there any purpose at all in living? Or is everything completely pointless? What am I supposed to do? How can I choose among the many ways I could spend the rest of my life? Does everyone’s life have the same purpose, or does everyone have their own? Where does purpose come from? Does it have some ultimate source, or is it jus

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