“Would my life still be meaningful?”: Intersubjectivism and changing meaning in life

Abstract: Susan Wolf maintains that the meaningfulness of a life arises when someone acts upon the subjective desire of doing something objectively valuable. This amounts to a hybrid view, which contains both subjectivist and objectivist elements. Wolf’s tentative definition of what is objectively valuable amounts to what, in this article, we define as ‘intersubjectivism’. As it will be argued, however, intersubjectivism poses a number of problems, which are exacerbated in contemporary society and which shed a new light on the problem of meaning in life.

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: “Would my life still be meaningful?”: Intersubjectivism and changing meaning in life ; volume:29 ; number:4 ; year:2019 ; pages:462-469 ; extent:8 ; Human affairs ; 29, Heft 4 (2019), 462-469 (gesamt 8)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Politi, Vincenzo

Further information

• DOI: 10.1515/humaff-2019-0041
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022111813451903470931
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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