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Meaning in life is the degree to which people feel that connectiveness to themselves, to each other, and to the world that alleviates or ameliorates that anxiety, absurdity, and alienation, so that life is worth it to them…Do you have those kinds of connections enough that you don’t find life overwhelmingly absurd and futile, that you don’t feel yourself overwhelmingly alienated, that you’re not overwhelmingly beset by both psychological or existential anxiety?
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Vervaeke's Definition of Meaning
Meaning has to be understood as a relationship rather than an absolute state. We feel meaning when we are connecting us to ourselves, to others, and to the world. His perspective is deeply influenced by Daoist & Buddhist philosophies.
We face a meaning crisis when feel an...
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Participatory Knowing
The modern world has gone wrong with its construal of rationality as the logical manipulation of statements. Rationality is not the only form of knowing.
"We’ve reduced our understanding of what knowing is to merely the propositional level, and we’ve left out the parti...
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