Question: what is the purpose of life?
Technical terms:
- Purpose: The main reason for which something is either created or exist.
- compassion: a genuine sympathy for other's suffering and the will to help remove their pain.
- Inter-dependence: a natural law that states that everything in the universe is the product of natural cooperation.
Author's Thesis: The purpose of life is to be happy.
Author's Argument: "In compassion and the individual", the fourteenth dalai lama tenzin gyatso states that the meaning or purpose of life of every human being is to be happy, and that this happiness is achieve through the daily practice of compassion and love. He claims that happiness and suffering as well share two common relams, the physical and mental.Nevertheless, the mental exerts the greater influence in humans and therefore each individual should strive to achive mental peace.According to his experience This inner tranquility can only be achieve through love and compassion and that is why everybody should aim to master these two.But, the mere act of thinking that compassion and love can be the key elements to achive the ultimate goal which according to his judgement is happiness is simply not enough, he states that it is mandatory for everyone to train themselves, and that the best way to accomplish this goal is by embracing our daily life problems as opportunities to strenghten our beings through the practice of compassion and love. He asserts that the main reason why humans can accomplish happiness through love is due to the fact that humans are social creatures and are subject to the inter-dependence law, and this places love at the very core of our existance. He continues supporting his argument by giving some examples of what he ...
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...e the mere fact that he is alive which in itslef is a experience imply that his life has a purpose assuming the purpose of life is grounded on our experiences.
Regarding people that by some illness or accident have never been consciouss or at some point were conciouss of their actions whether their life has a menaing or not I can argue again that the fact that they still can be regarder by scientific evidence as being alive allows me to ensure that indeed their life has a meaning. However I recognize that at this point the argument can not provide a satisfactory answer due to the fact that their unconscioussness seem to suggest that someone with the innability to feel or experience may be regarded as purposeless. Nevertheless I think this is more a moral statement than a metaphysical one as the meaning of life, and therefore it goes beyond the scope of my argument.
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