Frankl and Searle: Analysis of the Difficulties of Life

Life is not something that can be defined by any single person. Everyone sees life as having a different purpose.

We are meant to become our truest selves by finding meaning in our lives, which, according to Frankl, can come from three places: work, love, and our attitude in the face of horrific suffering or difficulty. And at the center of this meaning is our responsibility and human right to choose. In Frankl’s theory, we all strive to fulfill a self-chosen goal, from which meaning has the potential to be found. And if no meaning is found, there is meaning yet to be found, or meaning to be drawn from the apparent lack of meaning. Whatever the case, Frankl viewed man’s lack of meaning as the greatest existential crisis, the stress of this meaninglessness giving life and shape to all of our neuroses.

“In such as world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”

Frankl had bad experiences from World War 1 when he was a young boy and his family didn’t have much money. When he got to high school he was really smart and gifted, especially when he wrote his graduation paper that paralleled with Sigmund Freud an Austrian Neurologist just like Frankl. A year later after one of Frankl’s essays gets published to a journal he meets Freud in person, he was only 20 years old and has accomplished lots. He then later organizes counseling programs, becomes a director of a department of the Rothschild Hospital, a hospital for Jewish patients. He finds the love of he life and gets married and a year later his whole family are taken together to Theresienstadt Ghetto, six months later his father passes away. At this moment in time Frankl goes through the tough times of everyone in his family dying. But he doesn’t give up and he is in his last camp he kept reconstructing his stories/books by stealing from paper from the camp office to keep him from being tired and miserable he kept his mind active. Then gets out of the camp after the U.S. solders rescue the remaining survivors of the Holocaust. He didn’t give up and he lived to see brighter days and achievements and he talks about that in his last printed book “Man’s Search for Meaning”. He ends up dying in 1997 but achieves a lot including publishing several books and becoming professor at his own University which makes feel

Euripides’s play Medea and Sophocles’ play Antigone both describe a woman who faces many hardships throughout the play. The arguments between the characters in both of the plays justify their actions regarding what they did in response to what happens. In the play Antigone, the main character faces hardships because she broke the king’s law regarding the burial of her brother Polyneices, which eventually led to multiple deaths of because Antigone’s. On the other hand, in the Play Medea, the character Medea was a powerful sorceress who was tricked into loving Jason with the help of Aphrodite, and used her just to get power.

This paper could go on and on about “the definition of life” or crap like that, however that would be a large waste of time and space. So, with that in mind, this paper shall continue on wayward.

It was the meaning that Frankl found in life that allowed him to carry on. Because of this ‘why,’ he survived past World War

In Thomas Nagel’s book What Does It All Mean, Nagel shares his view on several different topics. The first topic we will discuss is our perception of reality. Nagel describes several different beliefs about the reality that we live in and the reasons for those beliefs. After discussing reality, we will be discussing arguments about free will and whether or not human beings actually have the ability to make their own decisions. In the end, it all comes down to one big question. What is the meaning of life?

‘LIFE WITHIN LIFE’ PRINCIPLE: A life unit is dependable on and, at the same time, indispensable for its ‘master being’ & ‘the master being’ granting a living space for a myriad of dependable, but necessary life units. The old saying, ‘As Above, so Bellow’, & ‘Know Yourself, You’ll Know the Whole World’ is TRUE. THE UNIVERSE IS THE HIGHEST ‘IRREDUCIBLE COMPLEXITY’ SYSTEM.

“Many who die deserve life and many who live deserve death, can you give it to them?…All you have to do is to decide what to do with the time that is given to you.” – Gandalf, wizard from the epic The Lord of The Rings

His research and its results reminded me of a short but very sensitive period of my life when my mother had a breast cancer, almost 5 years ago. I can say in that time, I experienced all steps of Frankl's theory about finding a sense of meaning and purpose in life. I not only felt a fear of losing my mother at the highest level possible but also was a witness of how my mother suffered from her illness. Problems were not only my tasks to help the family or even take care of my mother, but also, I must give hope to family members. However, in each challenge, there is a point. Each problem in life teaches us a lesson that how to stand in front of it and solve it, not escape of that. For example, I have never had an attitude that I can manage a family in hard situations, but it seemed that I had it. I just did not have a correct attitude to myself, my

To begin with, I’ll examine Frankl’s theory of existential analysis known as logotherapy. Logotherapy states that we as human beings are conscious creatures, responsible for our choices and decisions in life. Frankl proposed a dualistic view of human nature, which claimed that the unconscious is home to both sides of humanity, with instinctual, animalistic aggression on one end, and genuine altruism on the other. We are therefore divided between the decent and indecent, who make up every population in every situation, who exist both as guards and prisoners. It is the mechanism of choice that determines our truest self, while also granting the opportunity to transcend the self.

What is the meaning of life and what is their part in the grand scheme of things is a lifelong quest for Authentic Blues.? They strive all their lives to “become.” Some even become workshop groupies, believing they have found the Holy Grail, which is until the next new exciting idea comes along.

Frankl may respond to it by praising the idea of finding a meaning of life. What he means by this is to find hope in a situation like the Holocaust. For example: he might feel elated for Renee, who found joy writing on a roll of toilet paper.

Before I can form any rational scheme of action under this pressure of distress, it is necessary to decide whether, after our present state, we are to be or not to be. That is the question which, as it shall be answered, will determine whether 'tis nobler and more suitable to the dignity of reason to suffer the outrages of fortune patiently, or to take arms against them, and by opposing end them, though perhaps with the loss of life. If to die were to sleep, no more, and by a sleep to end the miseries of our nature, such a sleep were devoutly to be wished; but if to sleep in death be to dream, to retain our powers of sensibility, we must pause to consider in that sleep of death what dreams may come. (Harris 83)