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Life and Meaning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Ilham Dilman
Ilham Dilman
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University College of Swansea.
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People sometimes ask whether their lives are meaningful or not, whether or not their lives add up to anything. Sometimes they also ask whether life as such is meaningful or not. These are not unconnected questions. Still they are not questions which everyone asks himself. Nor do we always readily recognise what one who asks these questions wants to know. There are some people who will not even find such questions sensible. Some will regard them not as questions but simply as symptoms of something having gone wrong somewhere. Thus in the Diary of the Student Kostya Ryabtsev we find the following words:

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Philosophy , Volume 40 , Issue 154 , October 1965 , pp. 320 - 333
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1965

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page 323 note 1 With acknowledgments to Professor Austin.

page 324 note 1 I should like to acknowledge an enormous debt to Mr Rush Rhees in Swansea for my reading of Wittgenstein.

page 326 note 1 Printed in The Listener, 10 June 1954.Google Scholar