What do you keep living for? Is there a specific person, goal, or idea that you work for? Is there no meaning to life in your opinion?

Context: I’ve been reading Camus and Sartre, and thinking about how their ideas interact with hard determinism.

  • einkorn
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    5 days ago

    Isn’t the idea of a meaning of life irrelevant if you believe that the universe is deterministic?

    • possiblyaperson@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      5 days ago

      Well sure, I can say that objectively it is pointless to try and give my life meaning - but I think that it is still part of the human condition to try and strive for some purpose. More of an emotional need than a philosophical need would be the way I would frame it.