Episode 3: The Meaning of Life

Chris and Christian discuss the meaning of life. Can life be meaningful even if God doesn’t exist, or even if there’s no afterlife? What does it even mean to lead a meaningful life? Is it just about being emotionally engaged with your life projects? Or is it about pursuing objectively valuable goals such as beauty, justice, or knowledge? And what, concretely, should we do when we find our lives meaningless?

Works consulted:

Susan Wolf, “Meaningfulness: A Third Dimension of the Good Life.”

Thaddeus Metz, “The Meaning of Life” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Robert Nozick, “Philosophy and the Meaning of Life.”

Thomas Nagel, “The Absurd.”

Music by Cosimo Fogg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY4yspCQRaM