Susan Wolfs “The Meaning in Life and Why It Matters” is a short book of Essays containing commentaries by Robert Adams and John Kothe, and Wolfs responses to their commentary. Throughout the book Wolf focuses on 3 views to talk about when thinking about life, and objectively why it matters for it to be important. Those 3 views are the Fulfillment view, the Larger-than-oneself view, and the Bipartite view. After explaining these views Wolf then gives her interpretation on her own crafted view called the Fitting Fulfillment view. After Wolf explains these views, Adams and Kothe set up counter arguments to her view and the other views. In this essay, I will be explaining each of Wolfs views then, in the end, setting up my own counter argument to her Fitting Fulfillment view.
The Fulfillment view on life generally bases around finding a central “Fulfillment View” or trying actively to search out positive fulfilling experiences you care about. IF you can find these meaningful experiences and have this sense of Fulfillment daily, your life is then so called “Meaningful”. Most people would suggest that Meaningfulness is centered around happiness and positive feelings. However, this is not the case. People can find meaning in things that are not positive all the time. For Example, doing …show more content…
Fulfilling, happy experiences vary from person to person. Someone who is rich can have significantly more positive “fulfilling” experiences than someone who is poor. In today’s age, materialistic items can almost have a more positive experience to someone when they acquire said material. If they have a lot of happy “meaningful” things, that doesn’t necessarily mean that their whole encompassed life is meaningful just because they have something like the new iPhone, in a year or so it will be replaced with another one anyways, so where the meaningfulness in your overall life
The Fulfillment view on life generally bases around finding a central “Fulfillment View” or trying actively to search out positive fulfilling experiences you care about. IF you can find these meaningful experiences and have this sense of Fulfillment daily, your life is then so called “Meaningful”. Most people would suggest that Meaningfulness is centered around happiness and positive feelings. However, this is not the case. People can find meaning in things that are not positive all the time. For Example, doing …show more content…
Fulfilling, happy experiences vary from person to person. Someone who is rich can have significantly more positive “fulfilling” experiences than someone who is poor. In today’s age, materialistic items can almost have a more positive experience to someone when they acquire said material. If they have a lot of happy “meaningful” things, that doesn’t necessarily mean that their whole encompassed life is meaningful just because they have something like the new iPhone, in a year or so it will be replaced with another one anyways, so where the meaningfulness in your overall life