生活有意义吗

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• What are we really asking when we ask about the meaning of life? Partly, it seems, we are asking about our relationship with the rest of the universe – who we are and how we came to be here. One aspect of this is a scientific question about our origins. To which the answer, only recently discovered, is breathtaking:[3] we came from the stars. If we manage (the experience is rarer and harder now) to find a spot far away from the city, where no seepage of noise and dazzle pollutes the night, and look up in wonder at the vast and silent blackness of space from which numberless brilliant points of light shine down upon us, then what we see is the same material from which we, and everything else on the fragile planet, were once formed. We humans are part of the cosmos: not just an item on a hap... (查看原文)

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• A RELIGIOUS QUESTION? Religion is clearly one way in which humans have found a meaning and purpose to their lives. But is it the only way? Albert Einstein asserted bluntly that ‘to know an answer to the question “What is the meaning of human life?” means to be religious’.[1] That other giant of the twentieth century, Sigmund Freud, also insisted that ‘the idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system’.[2] Yet of course[10] it by no means automatically follows from this linkage that the religious stance is therefore something to be advocated. Freud himself regarded the solution offered by religion as pandering to something unhealthy and disordered in the human psyche: The moment a man questions the meaning and value of life, he is sick … By asking this question on... (查看原文)

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