Category Archives: Meaning of Life – Agnostic

Summary of Oswald Hanfling’s, The Quest for Meaning

Photograph of the smashed interior of the Berlin synagogueThe interior of the Fasanenstrasse Synagogue in Berlin after Kristallnacht

Harmless Self-Deception

Oswald Hanfling (1927-2005) was born in Berlin but when his parents had their business vandalized on Kristallnacht in 1938, he was sent to England to live with a foster family. Continue reading Summary of Oswald Hanfling’s, The Quest for Meaning

Summary of R. W. Hepburn’s, “Questions about the meaning of life”

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Unanswerable Question and Worthwhile Projects

R. W. Hepburn (1927-2008) grew up in Aberdeen Scotland and was Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. In his 1965 essay “Questions about the meaning of life,” Hepburn claims that traditionally the question of the meaning of life Continue reading Summary of R. W. Hepburn’s, “Questions about the meaning of life”