The Meanings Of Life By John Wisdom

For as long as one can remember, Philosophers have always tried to answer of what the meaning of life is, or if there is even meaning, but eventually gave up on it because too many factors are implied in answering such a question. In his article, The Meanings of the Questions of Life, John Wisdom challenges the question by presenting some of the factors that might lead some people to think that it is pointless to ask what the meaning of life is before presenting his own opinion that states that asking the question itself is not pointless, but there that might not be a definitive answer to it.
Wisdom starts by arguing that some people think that asking this question is pointless because there are endless questions that one can ask, even if they have an answer, illustrating it in the form of a story: “There is an old story which runs …show more content…
For instance, when asked what holds the world, the old man answers that it is a giant. Already that statement might be questioned by some because most would doubt that a giant can be bigger than the whole world, but what really lacks logic is what comes next: the child asks what holds the giant and the man answers an elephant. Then comes the point where the child asks what holds the elephant and the old man’s answer is that a tortoise holds it. From all angles, the answers the child is being given lack logic; how can an elephant support the weight of a giant when the elephant is much smaller and cannot hold as much weight, or how can a tortoise hold the weight of an elephant without collapsing? This concept can be applied with questions we ask daily and one of them is the question of what the meaning of life is, and seeing as answers don’t always follow an ABC type of logic, we might come to the conclusion that asking ourselves such a question is