Philosophy of Life Essay

The existential question of, “what the meaning of life is,” has existed for thousands of years. Many try to answer it with religion while others try to answer the question through logic. Yet, there is no definite answer. Along with the search for the purpose of life, comes the question of how it is best lived. Three works, “The Death of Ivan Ilyich,” “The Grand Inquisitor,” and “A Sketch of the Past,” have been used to look at these questions and provided different interpretations and potential answers

hill and a guide to life, but it was when I was 16 that I threw him away, along with my pursue of perfection. He is God. He brought happiness to me; he brought calm in my heart; he brought meaning to my life. I had the feeling that everything was put in place in front of me, and my path is pointed out and I just have to follow it and flourish in life. But just like any other beautiful dreams, the more I wanted it to be true, the faster I would wake up from it. Meaning of life, purpose of human existence

just one small piece of it? I believe that an up close viewpoint is important to maintain to prevent psychic numbing and to maintain the humanity of events that we have no direct connection with. When learning about the history of the universe and of life zooming out too much can prevent you from empathizing with people from history. We have a tendency as

“We’re not happy and we can’t be happy; we only want happiness.” So, what’s the purpose of life? Is it to be happy? Everyone has that desire, to have happiness. We even base our decision we by how it will affect our happiness. In our life we experience happiness and unhappiness, but we are oblivious as to what happiness is. What comes to mind when thinking of happiness? Is it pleasure, the thought of the good life, prosperity, or is it something else? We won’t be able to have a response to that question

based on what someone is most passionate about. It can be about the pay rate, the hours or even the environment. Gordon Marino author of "A Life Beyond Do What You Love", published in 2014 in the New York Times, reasons that people should not only do what they love but perform something that can benefit society or their families. Mariano is a professor of philosophy, a student advisor and a community volunteer. He came to realize that adults who mentor and advise young adults should not only tell them

Schooling in America needs to undergo a few changes. Currently, we are stuck with a teacher-centered way of educating and even though we will still need components of that it is now time to consider how important it is to more fully integrate student voices and what the students find meaningful. I believe the primary purpose of school in America should be to create students and people who are culturally literate problem solvers that are prepared to live comfortably and, if they feel it necessary

Niles, describes how existentialism is a 20th century philosophy that centers itself on the analysis of human existence. He explains the popular slogan “existence precedes essence” by the very first founders of Existentialism, Jean Paul Sartre. The notion of the slogan is described by explaining how humans come into existence when they are first born, and spend their lifetime changing their essence and nature so it satisfies them. The philosophy of Existentialism is further analysed by explaining how

experience of the process of life. At the same time this final elegy brings out the reconsolidation between the polar opposites such as pleasure and pain, life and death, success and defeat. As a matter of fact, these solaces should occur at the end of the elegy. This is how Rilke keeps himself tuned to the continuity of the tradition. However the solace is not derived from any established system of philosophy such as Christianity, rather the poet is trying to project his own philosophy whish emerges from

“The Absurd” Thomas Nagel observes that, while many humans will make the claim that life is absurd, most lack adequate reasoning to support the claim. When Nagel's uses the word, he means a conspicuous discrepancy between pretension or aspiration and reality. In the reading, he gives the example of someone making a very complicated speech for a motion that has already passed as absurd (814). While Nagel agrees that life is absurd, his reasoning focuses more on the two points of view humans possess and

bad thing because if human values originate from subjective human choices, then all human action is arbitrary. They argued that from one 's own subjective point of view, whatever one does is the right thing. Therefore, this creates the notion that life does not have predetermined values. In other words: to an existentialist, there is no such thing as a standard of values because there is no God or perfect being to