What is the meaning of life, - a philosophical and spiritual problem that is relevant to the determination of the ultimate goal of existence, the purpose of mankind, the human species, is one of the basic philosophical concepts, which has great significance for the development of spiritual and moral character of the person. The question of the meaning of life can also be understood as a subjective evaluation of your life path and understanding of human content and direction of his life, his place in the world as a problem of human impact on the surrounding reality and putting human purpose beyond his life. This is the starting point of Daniel Hill’s article «The Meaning of life. Daniel Hill argues that without God, life would be meaningless.»
After that he refers to the Thomas Morris’s «Endowment Thesis», stating, that something has meaning if and only if it is endowed with meaning or significance by a personal agent or group of agents. He goes further, “This seems to be a truth about meaning of any kind. Human languages provide the simplest and most straightforward example of this. No word in any human language carries its meaning as one of its intrinsic properties. No sound or shape essentially means …show more content…
However, the most important purpose must surely be to glorify God, since God is, by definition, the supreme being, who ought to receive infinite praise and obedience. There are other purposes that are good and valuable, but none of them is of infinite value. Similarly, there is no other state of affairs as valuable as that in which God is glorified. God, being our creator and benefactor, has a claim on and right to our lives; nobody else has as strong a claim or as great a right to our lives, not even our parents. It follows that the moral imperative to glorify God is greater than any other moral
After that he refers to the Thomas Morris’s «Endowment Thesis», stating, that something has meaning if and only if it is endowed with meaning or significance by a personal agent or group of agents. He goes further, “This seems to be a truth about meaning of any kind. Human languages provide the simplest and most straightforward example of this. No word in any human language carries its meaning as one of its intrinsic properties. No sound or shape essentially means …show more content…
However, the most important purpose must surely be to glorify God, since God is, by definition, the supreme being, who ought to receive infinite praise and obedience. There are other purposes that are good and valuable, but none of them is of infinite value. Similarly, there is no other state of affairs as valuable as that in which God is glorified. God, being our creator and benefactor, has a claim on and right to our lives; nobody else has as strong a claim or as great a right to our lives, not even our parents. It follows that the moral imperative to glorify God is greater than any other moral