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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 91. Chapters: Meaning of life, Theatre of the Absurd, Nothing, Angst, Human condition, Philosophy of Soren Kierkegaard, Bad faith, Jewish existentialism, Philosophy of Max Stirner, Thought of Thomas Aquinas, Existential therapy, Absurdism, Black existentialism, Humanistic psychology, Self-deception, Authenticity, Christian existentialism, Postmodern Christianity, Existence precedes essence, Ressentiment, Logotherapy, Cosmicism, Robert C. Solomon, Lightness, Atheist existentialism, Existential crisis, Being in itself, Existentiell, Emile Benoit, Louis H. Mackey, L'existentialisme est un humanisme, Epistemic loneliness, Facticity, Existential phenomenology, Existential humanism, Pour soi, Anguish, Wish fulfillment, The Existential Negation Campaign, Feminist existentialism, Encounter, Agnostic existentialism, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Excerpt: The meaning of life constitutes a philosophical question concerning the purpose and significance of life or existence in general. This concept can be expressed through a variety of related questions, such as "Why are we here?," "What is life all about?," and "What is the meaning of it all?" It has been the subject of much philosophical, scientific, and theological speculation throughout history. There have been a large number of theories to these questions from many different cultural and ideological backgrounds. The meaning of life is deeply mixed with the philosophical and religious conceptions of existence, social ties, consciousness, and happiness, and touches many other issues, such as symbolic meaning, ontology, value, purpose, ethics, good and evil, free will, conceptions of God, the existence of God, the soul, and the afterlife. Scientific contributions focus more on describing related empirical facts about the universe; they largely shift the question from...
