{"id":9726,"date":"2019-09-11T20:52:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T00:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=9726"},"modified":"2019-09-12T14:46:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T18:46:50","slug":"why-do-we-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/09\/11\/why-do-we-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do we exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"516\" height=\"483\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/AW09112019-01.jpg\" alt=\"Why do we exist?\" class=\"wp-image-9719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/AW09112019-01.jpg 516w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/AW09112019-01-300x281.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><figcaption>Why do we exist?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There are as many answers to this question as pages in this library, but they basically fall into two categories: teleological (related to purpose), or etiological (related to causes &amp; origins). The first asks What is our purpose? and the second asks What caused us to be? Some might add a third category: phenomenological (related to experiences), which asks What is happening? You could do worse than to explore all three (teleology, etiology, and phenomenology) in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: <a href=\"https:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\">https:\/\/plato.stanford.edu<\/a>. Me, I think we&#8217;re here to love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are as many answers to this question as pages in this library, but they basically fall into two categories: teleological (related to purpose), or etiological (related to causes &amp; origins). The first asks What is our purpose? and the second asks What caused us to be? Some might add a third category: phenomenological (related &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/09\/11\/why-do-we-exist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why do we exist?&#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":[13],"tags":[747],"class_list":["post-9726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-questions","tag-existence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9726","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=9726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9742,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9726\/revisions\/9742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}