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The Meaning of Life: Existentialism

for those who would adopt the notion of existentialism it is important to note that their perspectives and faith in religion and G...

Man's Search for Meaning and Existentialism

of their circumstances and wonder "how such a thing could happen" (Frankl, 2006). Nextly, the prisoners would descend into a state...

Modern Society's Antihero and Existentialism

In five pages existentialism is examined in terms of the theories of Frankl, Husserl, Camus, Sartre, and Nietzsche and applied to ...

Islam, Christianity, and Hinduism on Life's Meaning

eyes of the Islam and the Christians and he is the one who will take us to a better place when our time on earth is done(Dalrymple...

Life's Meaning in 'Metamorphosis' by Franz Kafka and 'Ivan Ilyich' by Leo Tolstoy

In 4 pages this paper examines how life's meaning is conveyed through physical and spiritual changes in a contrasting of these two...

Great Minds Discuss Life's Meaning and Purpose

In five pages this paper examines how life's meaning and purpose are viewed by such great thinkers as Albert Camus, Friedrich Niet...

Personal Morality and Life's Meaning

In nine pages this paper examines the role of personal morality in attaching meaning to life in a comparative analysis of Meno and...

Ancient Literature on the Life's Meaning of Moral Order

Sophocles "Oedipus the King" Sophocles establishes a setting in which the twists and turns that ultimately led to the vision of ...

Philosophers on Life's Meaning

one looks at a variety of lifetimes via reincarnation, its purpose explained by knowledge. In other words, people are born and liv...

Life's Meaning in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

the ears of company officials. Marlow accepts this mission, travels upriver, and confronts the horror that Kurtz has become. In ot...

Life's Meaning in 'Death of Ivan Ilych' by Leo Tolstoy

In eight pages this paper analyzes Tolstoy's protagonist and considers how this short story explores the value and meaning of life...

Judaism, Christianity, and Life's Meaning

outlook by blaming someone or something else, thus we will remaining in a ?status quo? personality and spirit all our life, never ...

The Absurd

philosophers and playwrights, addressed themselves to the reality of the absurdity of life and argued that that its reality should...

Life and Times of Vlad Tepes, the Original Dracula

out of the hands of Vlad the III. (Vlad 1996) Vlad III eventually did manage to regain the thrown of Walachia by conspiring with...

Life and its Meaning

In five pages this paper examines life's meaning in a consideration of such philosophies as Albert Camus' French existentialism, s...

Existentialism, God, and Man’s Purpose

The philosophy of existentialism originated among late nineteenth century philosophers such as Keirkegaard...

Existentialism and No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre

In four pages this paper discusses Sartre's assertion 'Hell is other people' within the context of the existentialism of his play ...

Humanism and Existentialism

whatever they become, defining their being through a projection of what they foresee of themselves in the future....

How We Live & How We Feel About Dying

that she does not want to see him to go his death "not owning up to the part" that he played in death of his victim (Prejean 179)....

Accounting for Human Behavior

they do? This question has been debated by psychologists, research scientists and philosophers for many years. This paper looks at...

Life and its Meaning Questioned

contrary, that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning." Albert Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus. * Life is a tragedy fo...

Walker, Pearson, Frankl, Miller, and Fromm on Identity and Meaning

In 5 pages these 20th century writers and thinkers are examined regarding their interpretations of identity and life's meaning in ...

Marguerite Duras, A Biography

This essay provides an overview of the life and career of Marguerite Duras, French novelist and film maker, specifically focusing ...

Why Be Moral?

todays society, but the search for contentment goes back centuries. For many searchers, happiness comes and goes, but it is a popu...

Logotherapy in Man's Search for Meaning

primary and not a secondary rationalization related to instinctual drives. This is a bold position. For instance, when someone has...

Life and the Search for Meaning

full potential in relationship to this peace and joy within themselves Powell, 1995; 3). In Mans Search for Meaning by Vikt...

Matthew 24:9-14

this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come (New Inte...

Interpretation of 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by T.S. Eliot

of the living (Schneider 834-835). In other words, someone in hell is only willing to expose his shameful state "to another of t...

Four Insights into the Meaning of Life

responsibility. He feels stifled by his Louisiana environment and longs to leave. He knows that this involvement will strengthen h...

Actor Christopher Reeve's Life

quite proud of his physical abilities and thus the accident left with virtually nothing as he could move almost nothing in his bod...