Meaningful Human Life

A Meaningful Human Life is a human life that is ranks highly in meaningful human life measure.

• Context:
  • It can range from being a Self-Assessed Meaningful Life to being an Externally-Assessed Meaningful Life.
  • It can range from being a Relatively Meaningful Life to being a Absolutely Meaningful Life.
• Example(s):
  • Tolstoy, by most people but not by himself (Tolstoy, 1884).
  • Dorothea (in Middlemarch), who "...pours herself into her roles as mother and wife ..." (instead of her youthly dreams to be a philanthropist).
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • Meaningless Human Life.
• See: Meaning of Life.

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References

2017

• http://nytimes.com/2017/09/04/opinion/middlemarch-college-fame.html
  • QUOTE: … Most young adults won’t achieve the idealistic goals they’ve set for themselves. … But that doesn’t mean their lives will lack significance and worth. We all have a circle of people whose lives we can touch and improve — and we can find our meaning in that. ...

2010

• (Wolf, 2010) ⇒ Susan Wolf. (2010). “Meaning in Life and Why it Matters." Princeton University Press.

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