The Making of Meaning
Last Saturday – 4th April – I delivered a course much anticipated… by me anyway. It was the first time I’ve got to use my philosophy background explicitly in a course, except for some work I’ve done in the area of business ethics. The course was on the meaning of life, and how to find it for yourself. It’s interesting to me that this sort of topic is...
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For Friedrich Nietzsche, the basic human motivation was a will to power. For others, from Freud and Skinner to Tony Robbins, it is a will to pleasure that drives us. Another man, Victor Frankl, had a different theory, one that was tested in the cold fires of the Nazi concentration camps. Frankl was a psychotherapist before his incarceration there, and was in the unique position of beign able...
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