Humanities Homework Help

According to M. A. Casey, how does the “will to meaning” undermine the possibility of living a meaningful life in the eyes of some critics of objective values?

According to Schopenhauer, what is Will (Wille) and how does it structure the world of appearances?

How does Casey defend the “will to meaning” from the charge that it naturally leads to intolerance and persecution and thus undermines the search for meaning in life?

In The Respectful Prostitute, Lizzie faces three challenges to her absolute commitment to truth-telling in the matter of what happened on the train where a black man was killed. What are these and what are their outcomes? What does this tell us about Lizzie’s commitment to truth-telling?

According to author of “The Meaning of Life,” Terry Eagleton, how does the universe have meaning?

According to Frankl, how does reductionism entail subjectivism and relativism?

In what way is The Trial an allegory for human life in general and thus a way of stating the problem of meaning for human life?

What does the Hunger Artist teach us about the value, if any, of ascetic practices?

What are Willy Loman’s values? How do they result in his becoming a failure and tragic anti-hero?

What is Existential Freedom and how does it threaten to rob life of its meaning? How does membership and participation in something larger than ourselves help us to deal creatively with this source of existential fear?

In what sense does Sartre’s view about freedom represent being free as a “terrible” state of affairs?

According to Frankl what is the main objection to subjectivism and relativism in accounts of the nature of values? How does he characterize objective values in a way that avoids this objection?

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