What is the meaning of life?
Not mere happiness. Not a feeling. And not some ready-made plan handed down from above.
In this episode I take apart a famous answer — Richard Taylor’s idea that life has no meaning from without, so we simply invent one from within. Comforting. Elegant. And wrong.
Starting from Sisyphus, a glow-worm in a New Zealand cave, Fleming’s penicillin, Neo’s „because I choose to,“ and Gandalf, the argument runs: subjective meaninglessness and objective insignificance are two entirely different things. Meaning isn’t something we feel. It’s something that works — and that we, unlike the worm, can consciously shape.
Based upon the essay „The Meaning of Life„
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