WESTERN cultural heritage. Not so much the rest of the world.
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Not even, this guy has a blind spot about the size of...let's say Greece.
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Wrong, they asked it 1 million years ago and the answer is 42. Everyone know that. Don't need to ask anymore.
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Quite a few of pre-Islamic poets in Arabia ponder exactly this...'I see us scuttling towards an unknown affair, yet here we are enchanted by food and drink' Imru-Al-Qais writing about death and and the meaning of life circa 550 AD.
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Undergrads writing essays in intro to philosophy classes would disagree: “Since the beginning of time, man has been searching for the meaning of life.”
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Man didn't exist that far back. Also time never began.
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This doesn't work, for several reasons. 1. As others have noted, the ancient Greeks worried about this stuff ("the unexamined life", the concept of "telos"). 2. And this was not just a preoccupation of the educated élite. Ancient polytheism did not prescribe (contd)
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"meanings" for life in the way that Christianity and Islam do. 3. This author is correct that when a religion like Christianity or Islam loses its monopoly, people search to fill the resulting narrative gap in different ways. But this is an uninteresting truism, and... (contd)
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Also see Ecclesiastes...
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Excellent point! Martela is on Twitter. Tell him!
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