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标题：Reflections on Meaningfulness and its Social Relevance
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作者：Nicole Note
期刊名称：Kritike : An Online Journal of Philosophy
印刷版ISSN：1908-7330
出版年度：2010
卷号：4
期号：01
出版社：kritike.org
摘要：philosophers who write about the meaning of life are few nowadays. The subject has lost its attractiveness. Perceived from a viewpoint of logical positivism or language philosophy, the whole issue of meaningfulness seems rather pointless. It is often considered to be related to metaphysics, making it less suitable for philosophical inquiry. The topic of meaningfulness seems too intangible. Indeed, the few philosophers that have embarked on examining meaningfulness have proven to be well aware of the challenges this poses. At times they acknowledge that the more they concentrate on the subject, the more it seems to fall apart into unintelligible pieces about which nothing of philosophical value can be said. 1