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Category: On Meaning

On Meaning: An Interview (Part #7)

Posted on January 11, 2013July 13, 2020 by ShiverWriggle

By: Patrick   Read the previous part of the interview here.   Interviewer: What about marginal cases, in which the person is – arguably – incapable of loving, such as a miscarried baby, or a person in a ‘persistent vegetative state’? Do these cases fall outside the category of those capable of living meaningfully? Do we…

On Meaning: An Interview (Part #6)

Posted on December 18, 2012July 13, 2020 by ShiverWriggle

By: Patrick   Read the previous part of the interview here.   Interviewer: Are there specific things that are fundamentally necessary for a meaningful life? Some may suggest that experiencing love, or living for a certain minimum amount of time, or having a social life, are bedrock essentials for achieving meaningfulness. Do you think this is…

On Meaning: An Interview (Part #5)

Posted on December 11, 2012July 13, 2020 by ShiverWriggle

By: Patrick   Read the previous part of the interview here.   Interviewer: Albert Camus made a famous reading of the Greek myth of Sisyphus in which he characterized human life as fundamentally absurd. The image of a man forced by the gods to push, forever, the same boulder back to the top of the same…

On Meaning: An Interview (Part #4)

Posted on December 5, 2012July 13, 2020 by ShiverWriggle

By: Patrick   Read the previous part of the interview here.   Interviewer: This seems to connect with something you touched on earlier, about definition. To define is to make a thing distinct, clear – definite. In boredom, the overwhelming feeling is, as you say, of anxiety, uncertainty. What one lacks is a definiteness about one’s…

On Meaning: An Interview (Part #3)

Posted on November 27, 2012July 13, 2020 by ShiverWriggle

By: Patrick   Read the previous part of the interview here.   Interviewer: 
In your recent paper ‘Boredom and Consciousness’ you suggest that boredom may be as much a solution to the problem of meaninglessness as a cause or symptom. By inhabiting my boredom, I am forced to ask what I really want. Do you think…

On Meaning: An Interview (Part #2)

Posted on November 20, 2012July 13, 2020 by ShiverWriggle

By: Patrick   Read the first part of the interview here.   Interviewer: That seems like an important distinction, between ‘the meaning’ and the ‘meaningfulness’ of a thing. Yet, why is meaningfulness necessarily important at all? I can imagine a life in which pleasure, or satisfaction, or kindness – a whole array of dispositions – could…

On Meaning: An Interview (Part #1)

Posted on November 14, 2012July 13, 2020 by ShiverWriggle

By: Patrick   Interviewer: In daily life we refer to different kinds of meanings: we talk about the meaning of a person’s actions, the meaning of a word, the meaning of life. What sort of meaning that you have in mind as a philosopher? Are these sorts of ‘meanings’ all the same? Patrick: The kind…

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