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The Meaning of life By: Terry Eagleton Chapter 4: Is life What You Make It? Submitted by Paul Lussier Recommended Readings' for the Aspen/Yale Conference 2007. The following is an excerpt from: Terry Eagleton, The Meaning of life . Oxford University Press (2007), The Meaning of life By: Terry Eagleton Chapter 4: Is life What You Make It? So far, we have looked more at Meaning than at life . Yet the word ' life ' is every bit as problematic as the word ' Meaning ', and it is not hard to see why. For surely the reason why we cannot talk about the Meaning of life is that there is no such thing as life ? Are we not, as Wittgenstein might say, bewitched here by our grammar, which can generate the word ' life ' in the singular just as it can the word 'tomato'? Perhaps we have the word ' life '. only because our language is intrinsically reifying, 'Essence is expressed by grammar', as Wittgenstein How on earth could everything that falls under the heading of human life , from childbirth to clog dancing, be thought to stack up to a single Meaning ?
The Meaning of Life By: Terry Eagleton Chapter 4: Is Life What You Make It? So far, we have looked more at meaning than at life. Yet the word 'life' is every bit as problematic as the word 'meaning', and it is not hard to see why.
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