{"id":28558,"date":"2025-07-25T09:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T13:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=28558"},"modified":"2025-07-25T15:00:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T19:00:40","slug":"meaning-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/07\/25\/meaning-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"meaning of life?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/aw072525-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"306\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/aw072525-1.jpg\" alt=\"meaning of life?\" class=\"wp-image-28557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/aw072525-1.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/aw072525-1-300x287.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">meaning of life?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The question has many dimensions: does my life have value? Is human life significant? Does a life have virtue independent of one&#8217;s actions? Is there a purpose, divine or otherwise? I highly recommend reading Viktor Frankl&#8217;s <em>Man&#8217;s Search for Meaning<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bcl-frankl-meaning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bit.ly\/bcl-frankl-meaning<\/a> (ebook), in which he claims that the primary human drive is a search for meaning, not pleasure. He spent 4 years in Nazi concentration camps, so his claims about meaning are worth a listen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question has many dimensions: does my life have value? Is human life significant? Does a life have virtue independent of one&#8217;s actions? Is there a purpose, divine or otherwise? I highly recommend reading Viktor Frankl&#8217;s Man&#8217;s Search for Meaning: bit.ly\/bcl-frankl-meaning (ebook), in which he claims that the primary human drive is a search for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/07\/25\/meaning-of-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;meaning of life?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28562,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28558\/revisions\/28562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}