Journal article
The meaning of life, equality and eternity
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We present an analysis of a notion of the meaning of life, according to which our lives have meaning if we spend them intentionally producing what has value for ourselves or others. In this sense our lives can have meaning even if a science-inspired view of the world is correct, and they are only transient phenomena in a vast universe. Our lives are more or less meaningful in this sense due to the difference in value for ourselves and others we intentionally create while leading them. These i...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1007/s10892-019-09296-0
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- Publisher:
- Springer Verlag Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Ethics Journal website
- Volume:
- 23
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 223–238
- Publication date:
- 2019-06-21
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-06-05
- DOI:
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1572-8609
- ISSN:
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1382-4554
- Source identifiers:
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1012012
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pubs:1012012
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uuid:acc96fff-eff8-4da7-ba56-75d7519ec2e5
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- pubs:1012012
- Deposit date:
- 2019-06-12
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- Copyright holder:
- Persson, I and Savulescu, J
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Notes:
- © The Author(s) 2019. Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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