This chapter (7), the realms of love, work, and play can provide ample answers to the question of why life is worth living, but only if we have some grounds for thinking that they furnish not merely goals that people do pursue, but also goals that people ought to pursue.
Through the development of a naturalistic theory of the meaning of life, as constituted largely by love, work, and play; each of these provides rewarding goals, which are brain representations of possible states of affairs imbued with emotional significance through a mixture of neural activities.
Observations of the pursuits and happiness of most people provide good reason to reject nihilism, the view that life is meaningless or absurd. There is more to meaning than happiness, which is the result of satisfaction of more basic goals whose pursuit and accomplishment enable human lives to flourish.
The meaning of life is multidimensional, requiring the combination and integration of various kinds of goals, the most of important of which concern love, work, and play. Support for the importance of these realms comes from psychological and sociological evidence about their contributions to human well-being, and also from emerging neurological understanding of how they operate in our brains.
The neurological basis for romantic love is becoming particularly well understood, but we must extrapolate to other aspects of love, such as parenting, friendship, and general compassion. Work can also be a source of well-being, through satisfaction of goals that include money, social approval, and intrinsic problem solving efficacy. Play might seem too trivial to be a component of the meaning of life, but it is something that frequently occupies adults as well as children, and neuroscience is starting to provide insights into how people enjoy such activities as music.
This chapter (7), the realms of love, work, and play can provide ample answers to the question of why life is worth living, but only if we have some grounds for thinking that they furnish not merely goals that people do pursue, but also goals that people ought to pursue.Through the development of a naturalistic theory of the meaning of life, as constituted largely by love, work, and play; each of these provides rewarding goals, which are brain representations of possible states of affairs imbued with emotional significance through a mixture of neural activities.Observations of the pursuits and happiness of most people provide good reason to reject nihilism, the view that life is meaningless or absurd. There is more to meaning than happiness, which is the result of satisfaction of more basic goals whose pursuit and accomplishment enable human lives to flourish.The meaning of life is multidimensional, requiring the combination and integration of various kinds of goals, the most of important of which concern love, work, and play. Support for the importance of these realms comes from psychological and sociological evidence about their contributions to human well-being, and also from emerging neurological understanding of how they operate in our brains.The neurological basis for romantic love is becoming particularly well understood, but we must extrapolate to other aspects of love, such as parenting, friendship, and general compassion. Work can also be a source of well-being, through satisfaction of goals that include money, social approval, and intrinsic problem solving efficacy. Play might seem too trivial to be a component of the meaning of life, but it is something that frequently occupies adults as well as children, and neuroscience is starting to provide insights into how people enjoy such activities as music.
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