Introduction
Philosophy has been a fundamental base for human beings to ponder on the question: “why are we here?” We had drawn numerous questions, and we had come up with countless answers to dare attempt to explain how we came to be a being, and what it means to be a being. Julian Baggini, the author of “What is it All About? Philosophy and the Meaning of Life,” analyzes these questions and different positions to come to an ultimate conclusion that combines all reasonable understandings of the claims. Baggini states that the question could be either about humans’ origin – why are we here, in terms of from what did we come to existence? – and our present and future – why are we here, in terms of why are we living our lives and how are we going …show more content…
Naturalists have maintained their position in believing that human beings don’t live life to achieve any goals or purposes because we didn’t have any to start with. Opposing to this perspective, Baggini argues that past doesn’t always determine our present lives’ meaning. He gives an example of 3M’s sticky notes. By explaining how post-it became useful when the scientists made faulty glue and wondered, ‘what if we had non-permanent sticky notes?’ Baggini illustrates how original meaning of creation doesn’t always remain in present days. In real life, humans don’t live just by survival instincts; if we did, then we would be living like animals, not knowing how to develop or even create culture and societies that are distinctive from each other. Theoretically, it could be rebutted that scientific researches prove that human beings are made without any purpose in life, and therefore we live without any meaningful goals in life; however, that statement would merely explain how we came to existence in terms of cells and DNA’s, not how we proceed to continuously renovate our ways of lives and live
Philosophy has been a fundamental base for human beings to ponder on the question: “why are we here?” We had drawn numerous questions, and we had come up with countless answers to dare attempt to explain how we came to be a being, and what it means to be a being. Julian Baggini, the author of “What is it All About? Philosophy and the Meaning of Life,” analyzes these questions and different positions to come to an ultimate conclusion that combines all reasonable understandings of the claims. Baggini states that the question could be either about humans’ origin – why are we here, in terms of from what did we come to existence? – and our present and future – why are we here, in terms of why are we living our lives and how are we going …show more content…
Naturalists have maintained their position in believing that human beings don’t live life to achieve any goals or purposes because we didn’t have any to start with. Opposing to this perspective, Baggini argues that past doesn’t always determine our present lives’ meaning. He gives an example of 3M’s sticky notes. By explaining how post-it became useful when the scientists made faulty glue and wondered, ‘what if we had non-permanent sticky notes?’ Baggini illustrates how original meaning of creation doesn’t always remain in present days. In real life, humans don’t live just by survival instincts; if we did, then we would be living like animals, not knowing how to develop or even create culture and societies that are distinctive from each other. Theoretically, it could be rebutted that scientific researches prove that human beings are made without any purpose in life, and therefore we live without any meaningful goals in life; however, that statement would merely explain how we came to existence in terms of cells and DNA’s, not how we proceed to continuously renovate our ways of lives and live