@Article{
AUTHOR = {Weinberg, Rivka Weinberg},
TITLE = {Ultimate Meaning: We Don’t Have It, We Can’t Get It, and We Should Be Very, Very Sad},
JOURNAL = {Journal of Controversial Ideas},
VOLUME = {1},
YEAR = {2021},
NUMBER = {1},
PAGES = {0--0},
URL = {https://journalofcontroversialideas.org/article/1/1/132},
ISSN = {2694-5991},
ABSTRACT = {Life is pointless. That’s not okay. I show that. I argue that a point is a valued end and that, as agents, it makes sense for us to want our efforts and enterprises to have a point. Valued ends provide justifying reasons for our acts, efforts, and projects. I further argue that ends lie separate from the acts and enterprises for which they provide a point. Since there can be no end external to one’s entire life since one’s life includes all of one’s ends, leading and living one’s life as a whole cannot have a point. Finally, I argue that since we live our lives and structure our living-a-human-life efforts both in parts and as a whole, it is fitting to be sad to recognize that leading and living a life is pointless. My discussion helps make sense of the literature that frequently talks around this topic but often does so vaguely and indirectly.},
DOI = {10.35995/jci01010004}
}