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Hello! I have been tormented by the question lately What is the sense of life?», « What does a person live for?"" My thoughts do not give me to live. I constantly think. I like a tangle contradictions. Answer, please, at my questions. Thanks a lot in advance."

Lyudmila, 19 years old.

Replies of Jeromona Job (Gmer):

The man was thinking about the sense and appointment of life with antiquity. The Greeks had a myth about Sisifa, the king of Ether (Corinth), who in the underground kingdom in punishment for the cunning should have always had a huge stone on the mountain: barely reached the top, as an invisible power rushed down the stone down and again began the same aimless job. This is an impressive example of life senselessness.

In the 20th century, the writer and philosopher Albert Camus applied this image to a modern person, considering the absurd of the main feature of its existence: "In an inexorable moment, when a person turns around and looks at the living life, Sisif, returning to the stone, contemplates the incoherent sequence of actions, His destiny. She was created by himself, connected to one whole memory and fastened with death. Convinced in human origin of the whole human, who wants to see and knows that the night will not end, the blind man continues the path. And the stone again rolls out "(A.Komyu. Myth about Sisyif).

The conclusion to which he came is inevitable for him and for millions of people who lived and living in disbelief. The only difference is that A.Kamey sought to be logical to the end and could acutely realize that the life of a person concluded in the framework of only the earthly existence reminds Sisyphers of labor. Most people are trying to live illusions and find meaning in earthly life. But in the world of finite realities it is impossible to find it.

Mathematics know that any finite number divided into infinity is an infinitely low value, i.e. Its limit is zero. Therefore, so naive attempts to unbelieve people explain what the meaning of their lives is. Some assure that they appreciate life with her joys, and this is quite satisfied. But earth life goes like water in the sand, and nothing remains from joys. And if after a few decades everything disappears, whether such a life can make sense. Others say they see their appointment to leave their business on Earth. Usually such explanations have to hear from people who are not involved in serious creativity and do not leave the real track. Outstanding creators themselves, with all those who are interested in their occupation, well understood and understand the incompleteness and limits of this activity.

Great mathematician and physicist Blaze Pascal (1623-1662) Two years before death, Mathematics P. Ferma wrote, which sees in mathematics no more than craft. The genuine goal of human existence, in his opinion, can only open the true religion: "To make a person happy, she should show him that there is God that we must love him that our true benefit - to stay in him and our only misfortune - be separated with him; That we are full of darkness, preventing and love him, and that, so we are finally wrong, without fulfilling your debt of love for God, but obeying the attractions of the flesh. She [True Religion] should explain to us the reason that we are opposed to God and our own good; Specify to us the funds from these dismissions and thus purchase these funds. Experience in this regard, all the religions of the world, and you will not find any other than Christian, which would satisfy these requirements "(thoughts about religion).

In our age, everything remains still. People who have a healthy moral feeling, reaching even the most outstanding results in creativity, perceive it as the main goal of life can not. I will give an example. Academician Sergey Pavlovich Korolev (1906-1966), being the general director of our space program, could not be satisfied, and thought about salvation, i.e. I saw the meaning of my life outside of the earthly life. In those years, when faith was persecuted, he found the opportunity to have a confessor, ride a mantis in Pühtitsky Assumption Monastery, to exercise generous charity. Stories have been preserved about this wonderful man of the nuns silhuani (the hopes of Andreevna Soboleva): "I headed the hotel at that time. Once a representative man in a leather jacket arrived at us. I gave him a room. Talked gently with him, brought to eat - all the same potatoes with mushroom gravy. He lived for two days, and I look - more and more amazes. Finally, talked. He said that he did not expect to see such poverty here, even poverty ... "I really want to help your abode, the heart breaks. When I saw how you live. I now have quite a few money with me, and I escaped here in some kind of miracle - you need to work again and I don't know if I can come to you soon. " He left me the address and the phone and said that if I was in Moscow, it is necessary to call him. I thanked him and gave the address of one poor priest who lived with his wife for 250 rubles a month (these are old money), saying that if you can, help. A month later, I was released in Moscow for the blessing of Igumeny. I arrived, I found the address he left me. I see a huge fence, a gatekeeper's fence. I ask me: "Do you?" I called the surname. He missed and said: "You are waiting." I am going and more and more surprise. In the depths of the courtyard - mansion. I call - the owner opened - the very person who came to us. How was delighted! He led me upstairs to the second floor. I go into the office and see him: there is an open volume of goodness on the table, in the corner of the cabinet - with open flaps, followed by images. Invited a woman (seems to her sister) so that she prepared everything. In the room at the sister - kyot walnut with a wonderful way of St. Nicholas. Before leaving, I gave me an envelope and said: "Here are five." I thought 500 rubles, and it turned out that 5 thousand rubles. What a help was for us! A lot of time passed, and now my friend arrives again - and it was an academician Korolev - sit in my cell and drink tea. He thanks me: "You know, I found a real friend and a shepherd thanks to you: that poor priest that you said about" (three meetings, M., 1997, 83 -85).

I brought in detail this story to show that the appeal to Orthodoxy was not for academician S.P. Korolev some episode. He lived in it and for the sake of satisfaction of spiritual needs risked its high position. With tremendous employment, the head of the space program found the time for reading the goodness - the creations of the holy fathers are a purely ascetic direction.

Not only science, but also artistic creativity can not be the meaning of human life. A.S. Pushkin, who was already part of the glory of the first poet of Russia, wrote three keys in 1827 - a poem, which was expressed by a painful feeling of spiritual thirst:

In the steppes worldly, sad and intolerable,
Three keys were mysterious:
The key of adolescence, the key is fast and rebellious,
Running, running, sparkling and jurry.
Caustal key wave inspiration
In the steppes of worldly exilets.
The latter key is a cold key of the cauldron,
It is sweeter than all the heat of the heart climb.

The soul of the 28-year-old poet does not find completeness of satisfaction in the joys of life, which boils, runs, sparkling and jurry. Castal Source (Spring on Mount Parnass, near Delph in Greece) - a symbol of poetic and musical inspiration. Water from this source also can not drink a fading soul. For the poet, which at that time was just beginning to comprehend the vital significance and spiritual beauty of Christianity, the sweeter was sweeten from the cold key of the sorry, seafood, worldly bustle and care. A few months before death, A.S. Pushkin will write: "There is a book that every word is interpreted, explained, preached in all ends of the Earth, applied to all the circumstances of the life and incident of the world; From whom it is impossible to repeat a single expression that would not know all by heart, which would not have been the proverb of peoples; She does not contain anything unknown; But the book of this is called the Gospel, - and this is the forever new charm that if we, the peaceful or depressed by the despondency, accidentally open it, then no longer able to resist her sweet hobbies and immerse the spirit in her divine eloquence. "(PSS, L. , 1978, T7, p.322).

We approached the answer to the question. The doctrine of the meaning of life is contained in the Holy Gospel. The Word of God opens the truth that the life is precious, she is more food (), maintaining it more important than Saturday (). The Son of God has life from eternity (). The deceased for us and the risen Jesus Christ is the head of life (). Genuine, not an illusive, meaning only that life, which introduces us to the eternity of God and connects with him - the only source of endless joys, light and blissful rest. "I am a resurrection and life; Believing in me, if it dies, will revive. And every living and believing in me will not die forever "(). Entry It starts on Earth. As the creation of God, there is a submission and the beginning of eternal life. New life already on Earth becomes reality through faith in the one who is the path and truth and life (). Evidence of this is the life of saints. But even the one who did not rose to the step of holiness, but only takes his spiritual path to honestly and responsibly, gradually acquires the inner world and knows what the meaning of his life is.

Dear Lyudmila! You need to enter the thousand-year tradition of Christian life. It is necessary not only to believe in Christ, but also trust him in everything. Then there will be doubts and themselves will begin to resolve painful questions about the appointment of a person.

The meaning of man's life - It's all that, for what he lives on Earth. But not everyone really knows what makes him live. Each thinking person comes such a moment when the question arises in front of him: what is the meaning of a person's life, what goals, dreams, desire forcing people to live, overcome all life tests, to pass the school of good and evil, to learn mistakes, make new and so on. Different wise men, outstanding minds of different times and epochs tried to find an answer to the question: "What is the meaning of a person's life?", But no one has come to the only definition. The answer is individual for each person, that is, what sees its meaning of the existence of one individual, it may not be absolutely not interested in the other, by virtue of the difference in individual-character characteristics.

The meaning of the life of a person consists of aware of the values \u200b\u200bthat he subordinates his life, then for which he puts life goals and implements them. This is such a component of the spiritual meaning of existence, which is formed independently of social values \u200b\u200band constitutes an individual human value system. The opening of this meaning of life and the creation of a value hierarchy, occurs from each individual in his reflections, based on personal experience.

Objective and meaning of human life socialist Sees fully implemented, only in the case of the necessary conditions of society: freedom, humanism, morality, economic, cultural. Social conditions should be such that the person can realize its goals and develop, and not becoming an obstacle on his way.

The purpose and meaning of a person's life social studies also sees inseparable from social phenomena, so it can know what is its goal, but society may not share it and in every way to interfere with its implementation. In some cases, this is good when it comes to the goals that the criminal, or sociopath, wants to achieve. But when a private small business entrepreneur wants to develop, and socio-economic conditions slow down, and he is not allowed to express his opinion, this certainly does not contribute to the development of personality and the embodiment of its plans to life.

The meaning of human life is philosophy

The actual question in philosophy is the meaning of man's life and the problem of being. Another antique philosophers said that a person could philosophize, knowing himself, the whole mystery of the existence of the personality, lies in it. A person is the subject of gnoseology (knowledge) and at the same time, it is capable of learning himself. When a person frightened his essence, the meaning of life, he decided to have many questions in his life.

The meaning of man's life is a philosophy briefly. The meaning of life is the main idea that determines the purpose of any object, subject or phenomenon. Although the true meaning can be fully comprehended, it can lie in such deep structures of the human soul that a person has only a superficial idea of \u200b\u200bthe sense. He can know him, looking inside himself, or by certain signs, symbols, but completely the meaning does not go to the surface never, only enlightened minds can comprehend it.

Most often the meaning of a person's life is considered to be the importance of items and phenomena, which he emphasizes them, depending on its individual perception, understanding and degree of importance of these items directly for this person. Therefore, the same items may have many values, depending on the people with whom they interact. Suppose some thing may be completely unbelievable, and one person has no sense at all. But for another person, this, the same thing can mean a lot, it is filled with a special meaning. It can be associated with him with certain events, man, she can be dear for him in a material plan, but in spiritual. An ordinary example is the exchange of gifts. As a gift, a person puts his soul, despite its price. The main thing, he wants to be remembered about him. In this case, the most ordinary subject can acquire an unprecedented meaning, it is filled with love, wishes, charges the energy of the governing.

Just as the value of the objects, there is also the value of the actions of the individual. Every a deed of a person is charged with meaning when he takes a decision definite for him. This sense denotes that certain actions carry in themselves value, depending on the decision taken and its value for the person and others. It also lies in feelings, conditions, emotions and comprehensions that arise from an individual.

The meaning of man's life, as a philosophical problem is also studied in religion.

The meaning of man's life in religion - So contemplation, and the personification of the Divine began in the shower, its focus to the superhuman shrine and joining the highest good and spiritual truth. But spiritual essence is wondering not only the truth, which describes the subject, is its meaningful value, but the meaning of this subject for humans and the satisfaction of needs.

In such a sense, a person also gives the importance and evaluation of the facts, cases and episodes from his life, which were significant for him and through the prism of this realizes its value attitude towards the world around. The peculiarity of the relationship of the individual with the world, occurs due to the value attitude.

The meaning and value of the human life, This is the value of a person determines how everything that has significance for him, it makes sense, is his own, expensive and sacred.

The meaning of a person's life is philosophy briefly as a problem. In the twentieth century, philosophers were especially interested in the problems of the value of human life and put forward different theories and concepts. Theory of values \u200b\u200bwere also theories of the meaning of life. That is, the meaning and value of a person's life, as concepts, were identified because the value of one moved to another.

Value is defined almost the same in all philosophical currents and the lack of value is also explained by the fact that a person is indifferent and it is not interested in life in life between categories of good and evil, truth and lies. When a person cannot, determine value, or does not know what of them in his own life, he is guided by, it means that he lost himself, his essence, meaning of life.

The most important among the personal forms of the psyche of the Individual are value - will, determination, and. The most important value guidance of the person is - faith, as a positive aspiration of man. It is thanks to faith who feels herself, we live, he believes in the best future, he believes that he will reaches his life goal and that his life makes sense, without faith, a man's empty vessel.

The problem of the meaning of human life It became especially developed in the nineteenth century. Also formed the philosophical direction - existentialism. Existential issues are the problems of a person who lived everyday life, and experiencing depressive emotions and states. Such a person experiences the state of boredom, and the desire to free.

The famous psychologist and philosopher Viktor Flank created his own theory and school in which his followers studied. The object of his teachings was a man in search of the meaning of life. Frankl said that a person gained his destiny mentally heal. In his most famous book, which is called: "A man in search of the meaning of life," a psychologist describes three ways to understand life. The first way implies the commission of employment, the second - experiences and feelings associated with a certain person or object, the third way describes the life situations that the person actually deliver all his suffering and unpleasant experiences. It turns out to find the meaning of a person must fill his life with work, or some major occupation, care for a close person, and learn to cope with the problematic situations, learning from them experience.

The problem of the meaning of human life, the study of his life path, testing, gravity and problems is the subject of the direction in existentialism - logoratera. In the center it stands a person as a creature that does not know his destination, and the seeking calmness of the soul. It is the fact that a person has a question about the meaning of life and being, determines its essence. In the center of the Logotherapy - the process of finding sense in life, during which a person will either be purposefully looking for the meaning of his being, to think about this issue and try what - to do, or, he will be disappointed in search and stop doing any steps to determine his existence.

The purpose and meaning of a person's life

A person must reflect well what his destination is, what he wants to reach at the moment. Because during life, his goals may change, depending on the external circumstances and internal metamorphosis of the person, its desires and intentions. Changing life goals can be traced on a simple life example. Suppose a girl ending school, dreams of passing exams perfectly, entered into a prestigious university, she has a career and postponing a wedding with his guy to an indefinite time. Time passes, she acquires capital for his business, develops it and becomes a successful business woman. As a result, the initial goal is achieved. Now she is ready to make a wedding, she wants children and sees their future sense of life in them. In this example, two very strong goals were nominated, and regardless of their sequence, they are both reached. When a person knows exactly what he wants, his nothing will stop, the main thing is that these goals and the actions algorithm are competent for their achievement.

On the way to achieving the main life goal, a person passes certain stages, between which there are also the objectives of the so-called intermediate. For example, first a person learns to acquire knowledge. But the knowledge is not important themselves, but their practical applicability. Then getting a diploma with honors can contribute to obtaining prestigious work, and the proper fulfillment of their duties contributes to an increase in the career ladder. Here the transition of important goals and the introduction of intermediate, without which the overall result is not achieved.

The purpose and meaning of a person's life. It happens that two people with the same resources completely live their life path in different ways. One can achieve one goal and come to terms with that, he does not feel the need to go on, and the other, more purposeful, all the time sets himself new goals, achieving whom he feels happy.

Almost all people unites one life goal - the creation of a family, the continuation of the kind, raising children. Thus, children are the meaning of the life of many people. Because, with the advent of the child, all the overall attention of the parents focuses on it. Parents wish to provide a child with everything necessary and work for this, trying as best as possible. Then work to give education. But, most importantly, every parent wants to raise his child in the desired way to grow up a good, fair and reasonable person. Then children, having received all the necessary resources from parents, at their old age, can thank them and put their integrity about them.

The meaning of the existence of people is the desire to keep the trace on the ground. But not everyone is limited to the desire to continue the genus, some have more requests. They show themselves trying to stand out from the gray mass in a variety of life spheres: sports, music, art, science and other areas of activity, it depends on the talents of each person. Achieving some result may be a man's goal, as a plank, which he jumped. But when a person's goal is realized by the achievement and he understands that it brought this benefit to people, he feels much more satisfaction from the made. But the achievement and complete implementation of such a great goal may be a year. Many outstanding people have not been recognized for their lives, but they have suffered the meaning of their value when those were no longer alive. Many so dying at a young age, when they reached a certain goal, and did not see more meaning in life, having completed it. Among such people mostly creative personalities (poets, musicians, actors), and losing the meaning of life for them is a creative crisis.

Such a problem generates thoughts about the extension of human life, and it can be a scientific goal, but it is necessary to clearly understand what it is necessary. If you look from the position of humanism, life has the highest value. Therefore, its extension would be a progressive step towards society, and also separate people specifically. If this problem is considered from the point of view of biology, it can be argued that some successes in this area already exist, for example, transplantation of organs, and treatment of diseases that were once considered incurable. A lot is said about the elixir of youth, as a source to maintain the ever-young body, but it is still from the level of fiction. Even if they delay old age, adhering to a healthy and proper lifestyle, it will inevitably come, together with all its manifestations, psychological and biological. It means that the purpose of medicine should also be a kind of way that the arrangements of people did not feel physical discomfort and did not complain about the reason, memory, attention, thinking, to save mental and physical performance. But not only science should be engaged in the extension of life, the society itself must create the necessary conditions for the development of human talents, to ensure the inclusion of public life.

The life of a modern person is very fast, and he has to spend a lot of energy and strength to comply with the norms of society and have time for progress. When a person is in such a rhythm, he does not have time to stop, stop doing everyday affairs and learned, worked before the automatism of movement and think, and for which it all is done and how really it is really expensive, deeply comprehend life and develop the spiritual sphere Life.

The meaning of the life of a modern man - This is a chase for mirages, imagined success and happiness, introduced templates in the head, a false culture of consumption of modernity. The life of such a person does not carry value in the spiritual plan, it is expressed in constant consumption, squeezing all juice. The result of this lifestyle is nervousness, fatigue. People want to surround themselves a big piece, take a place under the sun, despite the needs of others. If you look at such an angle, then it seems that life rolls to the bottom, and soon people will become similar robots, inhuman, heartless. Fortunately, the likelihood of such an event is very small. This idea is very extreme, and, in fact, concerns only those who really took the burden of careers and all the difficulties associated with it. But you can consider a modern person in another context.

The meaning of the life of a modern person is the birth and raising of children who can be proud of, and improving the world. Each modern person is the creator of the future of the world, and every person's labor activity is in the development of society. Conducting its value, a person understands that his life makes sense, and he wants to give himself even more, to invest in the future generation, to make good actions for the benefit of society. Involvement in the achievements of mankind, gives people an understanding of their own significance, they feel the carriers of a progressive future, because they were lucky to live at such a time.

The meaning of the life of a modern person in self-improvement, advanced training, receipt of a diploma, new knowledge, thanks to which you can generate new ideas, create new objects. Such a person naturally appreciates as a good specialist, especially when he likes what he does and considers it his meaning of life.

When smart parents, then children, accordingly, should be such. Therefore, parents seek to develop, form their children to make decent members of society.

The meaning of life and the purpose of man

To answer the question: "What is the meaning of a person's life?" It is necessary to explain all the constituent terms first. "Life" is understood as the category of finding a person in space and time. "Meaning" does not have such a certain designation, as the concept is found in scientific works, and also in everyday communication. If you disassemble the word itself, it turns out "with the thought", that is, an understanding of some kind of subject or impact with it, with certain thoughts.

The meaning is manifested in three categories - ontological, phenomenological and personal. For an ontological look, all objects, phenomena and events of life make sense, depending on their influence on his life. The phenomenological approach states that in consciousness there is an image of the world, which includes a personal meaning, which gives an assessment of objects personally for a person, denoting the value of this phenomenon or event. The third category is the semantic constructs of a person who provide self-regulation. All three structures provide a person with understanding his life and the disclosure of the true meaning of life.

The problem of the meaning of the life of a person is closely intertwined with his destination in this world. For example, if a person is confident that his meaning of life is to make good and God's grace in this world - his destination is a priest.

The purpose is the way of human being, it determines its meaning existence from birth. When a person clearly sees his goal, knows what he should do, he completely all his body and soul gives himself to this. This is the purpose of the purpose if a person does not fulfill him, he loses the meaning of life.

When a person thinks about his destination in life, he approaches the thought of the immortality of the spirit of human, his actions, their meaning is now in the future, that after them will remain. A man in nature is mortal, but since he is given life, he must understand that everything that is connected with him in this short-term segment of his life is limited only by the date of his birth and death. If a person wants to fulfill his destination, he will make actions that will be socially important. If a person does not believe in the immortality of the soul, his being will be unthinkable and irresponsible.

The meaning of life and the purpose of a person is a vital decision. Each person himself chooses, how to perceive himself, as a person, body and soul, and then he think about where to go and what to do. When a person gained a true purpose, he becomes more confident in the values \u200b\u200bof his life, it can clearly build his life goals and refer to the world with kindness and gratitude for the gift life. The purpose, like a river, for which a person is swimming, and if he himself does not know what pier he sails, no wind will not be passing him. Religion sees his destination in serving God, psychologists - serving people, someone in the family, someone about the conservation of nature. And it is impossible to condemn someone for the path chosen by them, everyone comes, since he wants, as he feels.

The simplified definition of the word "meaning" sounds like "essence in the context of reality". In other words, the meaning is the meaning of existence. All my life we \u200b\u200bare in finding this value. Our plans and cases are nothing more than attempts to find an excuse to our place in the universe. On the way to the truth we will get cold and fall, we get up and go on. How will all this end? According to the results of the life exam, someone will get "excellent", and someone will be "not". The truth is that there will be no opportunity to revoke anyone.

The happiness (or trouble) of a person lies in his ability to think. This gift of evolution moves by us, although he holds in a state of eternal anxiety. We do not know how to just live, walk through the streets, get acquainted, fall in love, disappoint, look at the rain drops, running around the glass, enjoy the sun. We will definitely need to know: "Why is it all?"

Peaceful torments are heated by doubts, uncertainty, shame, conscience, hope - feelings that manipulate our consciousness and force all new and new criteria for the importance of our existence on Earth. Perhaps that is why humanity has not yet found and never find a response to the question "What is the meaning of life?". However, this topic will always worry each of us.

About the sense and purpose

Meaning . The French philosopher and writer Albert Camoon once told: "I saw how many people die because life was no longer worth living for them. From this, I conclude that the question of the meaning of life is the most pressing. "

For a person, in contrast to other living beings, life is a set of values. To master them, you need:

• determine the goal;
• select funds;
• lower life routes;
• start moving forward.

All lives, people are looking for goals and implement tasks. Their scales are different. For someone, the meaning of the existence in the acquisition of a prestigious car, someone is important to become the best specialist in his profession, and someone intends to ever save humanity from diseases.

In all cases, a person has a goal, a guide lighthouse, which is called the meaning of life. But he appears in those who do not just mechanically use the skills embedded in it. This is the privilege of creatures of thinking, feeling joy, both from the process and the result.

Thus, the meaning of life can be represented as a totality of values, for which a person moves to goals and which subordinates their being.

Purpose . If we define the meaning yourself, the purpose chooses us. This is a kind of human spiritual mission, his true calling. It does not always coincide with the goals set, and sometimes leads us to the diametrically opposite direction.

We give a few examples.

The doctor and chemical scientist Alexander Borodin found himself in music - he is known, first of all, as an outstanding Russian composer.

Walt Disney multiplier at one time was fired from the newspaper for the lack of creativity of thinking, but it was precisely it allowed him to enter the world history.

Popular Spanish performer Julio Iglesias was a football player. However, over time, he realized that his singing delivers more pleasure to people than a game of football.

Many women seek to make a career and achieve in this certain success, but riding children, understand: their main role is motherhood.

Medical at work, an engineer of the house becomes a brilliant chef. A successful financier feels in its plate only when flowers land in his own garden. And on a unique shoe master there is always demand, despite the fact that it does not have higher education.

The most amazing thing that people who found their purpose are not asked by the question "What is the meaning of life?". Looking for the one who has not yet found. Founding does not ask where to look for.

People who believe in higher strength, live much easier. Christians are relied on Jesus Christ, Muslims - on Allah. "On all the will of God," the Orthodox believers say. And they do not shine nice.

In religion, the purpose is God's fishery that the Lord expresses against a separate person or group of people. Belief in what he will manage will send and will not let go past his place on earth, allows people to live in the absolute sensation of meaningfulness of life.

The simplest advice to those who are looking for the purpose: ask yourself a question, what occupation fills my existence to meaning and joy? Do not be afraid to hear yourself and go for your desires. The experience of many outstanding people shows - they found their calling, because they listened to their own "dream, I want."

What did you think about the meaning of life in antiquity

Representatives of the Greek, Chinese, Indian philosophy were permanent disputes about the place of a person in the context of space. Each person seemed to be part of them, reflection and even a symbol of the universe.

The sky, the Earth and the inner world of the individual constituted the basis of the universe in Chinese teachings. The man was a particle of all this. His life itself did not make sense.

Socrates, the founder of philosophy in general and Greek in particular, called for the knowledge of himself and self-improvement. That is, in his opinion, it allows you to correctly determine the values \u200b\u200bfor setting goals.

The Higher Good, the scientist called wisdom. In the desire for wisdom, he saw the meaning of man's life, as well as in happiness, whose main source is morality. Not in the accumulation of material benefits, but in the virtues, cleansing and developing your own soul.

Socrates supported and antisphen, which believed - the one who wants to be happy and get a ticket to immortality must lead the righteous and pious life.

Plato believed that a person could truly be happy when his soul goes beyond the scamping of her body. The nature of man, according to Platon, consists of will, mind and instincts. And a person builds his life depending on which the component in it prevails.

Aristotle's meaning of life saw in life "for the benefit", the desire to become a responsible citizen of his state.

The epicurus dreamed of reacing peace and avoiding trouble.

By the way, almost all the ancient Greek philosophers converged in the opinion that in the meaning of life should be sought in the present. He is here and now. "Live today, forget the past," calls on an ancient Greek proverb. "The Great Science live happily is to live only in the present," confirms Pythagores folk wisdom.

What is the meaning of the life of a person - the opinions of Russian philosophers and writers

"The gift is in vain, the gift is random, life, why are you given to me?" Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin thoughtfully referring to himself. Own experiences and doubts he moved to his hero. Evgeny Onegin is one of the bright examples of spiritual self-confidence, further self-determination and, finally, moral rebirth.

Pushkin was not the only among Russian poets, whom the problem of the meaningfulness of their own existence was worried. Alexander Blok believed that the person who would understand what the meaning of life was, would cease to be a man in a man and a lot will comprehend.

It is worth noting that the views of our outstanding compatriots according to one of the main (if not basic) issues of being concerned, first of all, the spiritual component of human nature. Objectives within biology and psychophysics seemed to be devoid of any excuse.

The first in search of the point was openly "swung" Vasily Rozanov. One of his philosophical essays, he called "the goal of human life." The challenge of the writer was not found a non-fiscal, but the natural purpose of human existence. And Rozanov determined: to strive for three things - the knowledge of the truth, the preservation of the external and internal freedom and the increase in goodness.

Another Russian philosopher and theologian Victor Nesmelov in the work "The question of the meaning of life in the teaching of the New Testament Revelation" is leaning towards a Christian view of this question. Religion explains to a person that he lives not for death, but for eternal life in heaven, "in God's kingdom of light and truth."

Nikolay Berdyaev believed that the life of the Spirit carries the light into existence and body, and the soul, and therefore fills being meaningful content. Representing your future, a person should strive to fill out a mental emptiness and come to a truly full life.

Dostoevsky, almost all the characters of which are moving in search of truth and sometimes cross the framework of the admissible Christian morality, believed that the human being is meaningful if it is within the framework of moral restrictions. Everyone determines the dimensions of these boundaries itself, but being under the watchful control of the Most High.

The work "The meaning of life" was noted in the history of Russian philosophical thought and one of the Brothers Trubetsky - Evgeny Nikolaevich. His views on this question are exceptionally religious foundation. "The prince considers God to be the life of the completeness and main assumption of any life. "This is what is for what it is worth living and without which life would not have the prices," the philosopher writes.

According to Count Lev, Nikolayevich Tolstoy target and the meaning of life should be self-cultivating personality. But not everyone, but the one that the Lord pointed out to us. You can achieve this through the failure of evil by violence and love for people.

At Tolstoy, as he himself told, there were moments in life when the question "What then?" It became unbearably painful for him. The states when he did not find a response to him, the writer called "stops of life." He did not know how to live, what to do, was lost and fell into a despondency.

Thick heroes each in their own way move to understanding their being. For example, Pierre Duckers through mistakes and disappointments comes to understanding: it is necessary to strive to truth, light and dignity.

World religions about the meaning of life

A believer to some extent freed from sincere throwing about the value of its existence. First, for him, faith in the highest mind - already makes sense. Secondly, he knows that life is not finite and for the earthly death, as after the completed performance, the curtain does not drop. Three major religions have their own ideas on this topic.

Christianity

The task of each believer of the Christian, on which the seal of the sin of Adam and Eve is lying - save their soul. The central figure, the pillar of being, around which everything else exists is God. People build their lives with the name of the Lord on the lips, with the Savior in the heart, with God's commandments in the head. No one is not given.

Happens, occurs differently. A man turns away from the Creator, violates the commandments, sinless, in no hurry to repent. His actions are incorrect, irrational. Sins - this is what deprives a person's life of meaning from the point of view of Christian teaching.

However, even atheists will agree that there is nothing beautiful in the increment, depravity, murder, despondency and other sinful manifestations. And all the ugly, devoid of harmony cannot contain a semantic beginning. Return to God, repentance is nothing but rethinking your life.

In the Christian religion, many meanings for humanity. When Christ created the world, everything was filled with meaning, as when he was saved from the dead. Only after the resurrection of Christ's life on Earth gained a new vector. Risen Jesus lit a path for each of us the light of hope for salvation.

Another God's Providence: The Lord created us in his image and likeness. And at that moment our existence gained an additional incentive - to meet the idea of \u200b\u200bthe Creator, not to destroy, not destroy the divine idea ..

In Orthodox Christianity, in addition to the compliance of God there is another goal - to gain the life of eternal. "God has no dead - everything is alive by God," the Scripture said. Immortality is not only a soul, but also the body is another meaning of being for a believer in Orthodoxy. Hence the tradition, the unlawful law - to bury the dead to the ground, and not burn his flesh.

Why among atheists a lot of pessimists? Because their life is filled with small everyday victories and lesions, short runs from one stage to another, sometimes large take-offs, but just as big drops. And all this moves to a completely obvious finale for them. Fat point at the end of the way.

Often, feeling the breath of death and turning back, a unbelieving person thinks about his life: "What was it? Was everything worth everything that I did in order to come to the world? " For many, such thoughts become big and terrible revelation.

The believer at the end is not a point - a lot. He has no fear before death, because the earthly world is not finite, and you can still fix it. Therefore, Orthodox, like other Christians, has an incentive to live, not losing the meaning.

Islam

In the Muslim religion, the idea of \u200b\u200bthe purpose of man, its roles and functions in the universe coincide with the Christian worldview. "There is no god besides Allah ...", "says Shahad, a certificate of faith in a single God and the mission of his prophet Mohammed.

According to the sacred Koran, it is impossible to know Allah if not to worship him. And the worship of the Most High in Islam means the creation of good and abstinence from the evil deeds.

In the main book, Muslims there is an indication of the goal, to which a person should strive. Allah says that he has created life and death to check which of people do good deeds. This is the meaning of human earthly being - to create good.

In the Quran one instructive example, told by the Prophet Mohammed. When a person dies, "Three will follow the deceased: relatives, property and his business." The first will return, and things will remain with it. Not in vain they say: the person is judged by affairs, and not according to the words.

Muslim religion, if it can be expressed, itching over the meanings of atheistic being. People who do not know Allah are usually motivated for material achievements - money, profitable work, prestigious machine. Sometimes they want health to relatives and close, prosperous family, happiness, etc.

All this has the right to exist if not the limb of the world. In the finals of life, a person does not need anything, all the acquired loses its meaning. Let's notify - for unbelievers.

The Koran calls all the above, the desires of useless game. "Know that the life of this world is fun, empty decoration, cvism and desire to increase some of your property and the number of children. In the future shelter is a real life, "explains the sacred book.

Thus, the goal and meaning of the life of Muslim is an approach to Allah, being according to his laws, salvation and eternal life.

Buddhism

Unlike Christianity and Islam, in Buddhism there is no supreme mind - God, and also not cultivated faith in the immortal existence of the human soul. What is the meaning of life for Buddhists?

As the Buddha taught, the founder and ideologist of religion, in a person's life, many sufferings that arise because of human desires. Get rid of suffering - every Buddhist. It is possible to achieve this only by immersing yourself in a special state of enlightenment, bliss - Nirvana.

Being in Nirvana, a person stops needing anything. All wishes and affected by them go to the back plan and no longer affect its current life, do not disturb and do not bother.

Nirvana can be achieved by moving from another state - Sansara. This is a kind of rebirth, the transition from one body to another. Movement is carried out under the control of "spiritual memory", karma. Your bad actions, as well as good, will go after you, having a bad or good impact on your life.

Movement from suffering through rebirth to the state of the highest bliss is the purpose and meaning of people professing Buddhism.

Why is the meaning of life every different

Thinking up over what role is assigned to him in this world, a person is trying to answer three main questions:

1. What is the value of life?
2. What is the ultimate goal of my existence?
3. Why should I live?

Immediately or in a short period, find answers will not work. It will take a lot of time before the young man will form ideas about the meaning of life. They will depend on different factors. Such as:

• social status;
• upbringing;
• religious affiliation;
• habitat;
• lifestyle.

By the combination of these factors of people who have certain semantic preferences can be divided into four groups.

1. Hedonists

They live pleasures and pleasures. Such is their life system of beliefs and principles. Means to promote their goals they choose different. Hedonists may experience satisfaction from the benefit that he brings to his participation to society and people. But often traditional values \u200b\u200bthey prefer pleasures that violate morality and morality norms. Deliver to delight from the life of hedonists help food, alcohol, sex, shopping, work, recognition, spiritual practices, society of friends, family, hobbies, travel, etc.

2. Ascens

Asceticism implies a denial of all desires. In essence, this is the ideology of Buddhism. Axets strive to achieve the highest state of the spirit, exhaust from earthly pleasures, passions, worries and affiliations. They do not need nor glory or wealth or money.

They agree to live alone beyond civilization. At the same time, ascetics pay a lot of attention to physical training and improve the discipline of the mind. It also enters their idea of \u200b\u200bthe meaning of life.

Asceticism with certain self-regulation opens up great opportunities for spiritual growth and internal improvement.

3. Contemplants

These people experience satisfaction from the surveillance process, viewing, contemplation of everything that surrounds them. The world they perceive passively, directly without affecting it. The visual object for the contemplator is the sphere of the application of his mind, thoughts, talents, desires, intentions.

Such a lifestyle is called active inaction. A person lives in a progressive movement, not in a hurry, does not immerse himself in the bustle, does not forget about the main thing. His goals and, ultimately, the meaning of life is in the performance of high debt, and not a race for receiving material goods.

Contemplation is actively used - it fills them with creative creative energy. The man-contemplator thinner feels the world and, as a rule, does not exchange on the momentary meanings.

4. Faces

These people do not live for themselves, but in the name of the universal good. In Marxist philosophy, which promotes such a lifestyle, it is argued that living for others can be "truly perfect and great."

The meaning of the existence of figures is determined by the contribution they contribute to the public affairs. Personal achievements satisfy them to a much lesser extent.

It is difficult to find a more philosophical and comprehensive concept than the meaning of a person's life. For centilities, philosophers and thinkers are fighting over it, they find their inspiration creative people, they are sent to long searching adventurers and passing passing. Almost each of us was thinking about this issue. True, a few response is found to him. Humanity has developed a sufficiently rich toolkit for self-knowledge. Religion and philosophy, science, occult, mythology. They are united by the fact that at different times they offered people their interpretation concepts of life. The article summarizes and unobtained their views.

What is the meaning of life?

The meaning of life is the ultimate goal of human existence, its purpose in the world. There is also a nearby concept -, that is, its abilities and interests. Do not confuse with the destination - the highest goal entrusted to us even before our birth. Although, often encounter egocentric interpretations denoting the meaning of human life. In their case, we are talking about the desires of a person. About how he wants to spend his time.

Each of us, repeatedly heard the statements of someone that his meaning of life is to hang out on discos and drink alcohol. In general, to conduct a slit life. Most likely, the universe was provided for such a person a completely different mission. Just, he still did not reach her, or just got off the way. In any case, I want to believe that the purpose of each person is precisely in making benefits to this world. Although the story remembers the names of cruel tyrants and sadists. Who knows, may be atrocities and assumed how their meaning of being.

What did our ancestors spoke about this?

The great wise men of the East and West were evaluated by the purpose of man. Particularly differed their views on the destination of fate. Some assured that a person is given the right to choose, independently dispose of his destiny. Others differed in extreme fatalism, convincing their contemporaries in the fact that all the roles are predetermined. You can not change. Only humbly play your performance to the last act.

• The philosophers of ancient Greece saw the meaning of life in self-improvement (Socrates), the state of happiness (Aristotle), deliverance from suffering and anxiety (epicur);
• Representatives of Hinduism and Buddhism regard the meaning of human existence in the acquisition of higher bliss (Nirvana), after cleansing karma;
• In ancient China, there were several philosophical schools with diametrically opposing glances, some seen the meaning in harmony with the outside world, while others - in the service of the sky;
• The meaning of the human existence for the ancient Slavs was associated with living in Ladu with nature, continue his genus, protect his tribe and its values;
• The harsh scandinavians believed that there was nothing better than the endless battles and death on the battlefield;
• Muslims, since the origin of their religion, see the meaning of life in serving Allah and his highest goal;
• Reflections on the meaning of life also occurred during the European Middle Ages, to the greater they were permeated with theological concepts of Christianity.

The XXI century corrected the interpretation of this concept, which is largely associated with the achievements of scientific and technological progress and the free receipt of information. Cultural exchange spawned various combinations of traditional views, having surprisingly mixing the traditions of the East and the West.

What questions worth answering, thinking about the meaning of life?

To find some answer, to start, you should ask the right question. Understand what we want to know in fact. In search of the causes and significance of our being, everyone is important to answer the most important question - "What is the point of my life."

Since immediately the truth does not open, it is best to break it into three subparagraphs, the understanding of which will noticeably alleviate the initial search:

• What are my life values;
• What are my goals;

It is the understanding of these fundamental components that will help anyone who conceived on the topic, in "what is my meaning of life." You can answer them as alone with yourself, and communicate with friends, or finding a spiritual mentor.

To understand your vital values, it is worth analyzing yourself and their surroundings. Self-analysis is not superfluous anyway. And the understanding of others is equally important, since, mainly, on the way to those people whose values \u200b\u200bcoincide. Here, looking at your friends, colleagues, relatives, you can learn better than your axiological guidelines.

The next step is goaling. After all, without the vector of movement, you can get off the course all the time. Therefore, the understanding of the goals is necessary in order to find your meaning of life.

The continuation of the previous paragraph is the question of "for which". When, the values \u200b\u200bare identified, the goals are set, it is worth merging into the overall task, for which it makes sense to open every day of the eye. Someone sees the meaning of life in his family, putting her well-being.

Family values \u200b\u200balso for him in the first place. The other chooses the main motive of its existence of work. His goal is career promotion, and values, respectively, coincide with the priorities of the company. For a third person, the meaning of life is traveling. In this case, the value will be new impressions, and the target is regular trips.

Regardless which the main task puts a person in front of him, it is important to maintain the integrity of this idea. It should be logically formed on the basis of our goals and values.

Why is it important to find the meaning of life?

Psychologists came to the conclusion that life is better in people who understood for which they were born. They keep their minds to deep old age, live longer and get more pleasure from life. Such people faster find themselves in society, achieve great results at work, enjoy authority in their surroundings. Therefore, it is important to choose a suitable way, which will allow you to become a happy and successful person.

The meaning of life is the concept of multifaceted and philosophical. But, as you know, all ingenious is simple. Perhaps the answer to this universal importance is also under our nose. And perennial searches and self-analysis only remove us from an obvious solution. Anyway, it is necessary to look for it, because only the meaning of a person's life makes this very life filled and meaningful.

Aristotle

Many people wonder - what is the meaning of life? And then they diligently seek the answer to this question, studying a variety of opinions of well-known and not very people who can be found in numerous sources of information. And opinions on this bill. Someone sees the meaning of life in one, someone in the other, and someone in the third. But in this article I will show you, dear readers that the answer to this eternal question lies on the surface, it is quite simple and obvious and it is not necessary to look anywhere. This answer suggests itself, we only need to look closely to our lives carefully, and then we will immediately understand. And our life is simultaneously simple and complex - it is simple in its plan, but difficult from the point of view of the process itself, when a person needs not just to be able to survive in this far from the friendly world, but even something else to leave. The only question is - what and why do we need to leave after yourself and how to do it? Here I will answer it in this article to explain to you, dear friends, what is the meaning of human life.

First of all, I want to immediately tell you that a person who is asked about the meaning of life is from my point of view a real person, a reasonable person, a person who knows how to think beyond his animal needs. Animals are not asked about the meaning of life - they just live. Their task is to survive and leave offspring to continue their genus. But a person is the only creature on this planet who wants to know - why should he live, why he to survive, for what, for what purpose? And this is a very good, very correct question. So, friends, thinking about the meaning of life - you confirm your rationality.

So, looking at the lives of people, as if from the side and by reflection over it, I came to the conclusion that there is an objective and subjective meaning of life. The objective meaning of life is expressed in the fact that a person needs to continue his genus, leaving the offspring after himself. It is called by the reproduction instinct. That is, we need to continue the human genus to preserve a person as a view. In fact, many of our instincts are directed to this, not only the reproduction instinct, and therefore this is the objective meaning of a person's life. Thus, from the point of view of nature, we, like animals, should survive and multiply, must continue their own kind - this is our task. You ask - why do we need to continue the human genus, for what purpose? Honestly to say friends, I do not know that, and no one can know. But, we can assume that all processes in the Universe occur for the sake of achieving some ultimate goal, which we can not know about, because we should not. Our task is to survive. Rather, we must transfer our genes to descendants, and thus play a role in the long history of evolution. And for what ultimate goal to us [people] you need to do it - no one knows. The fact that we live primarily to ensure the immortality of human genes, wrote such a well-known English scientist as Richard Dobinz, who in his book "Egoistical Gene" very well explained this thought. Dokinz wrote that the main role in evolution is the gene, and not a person and not population, and the main task of the gene is to survive and multiply, in the conditions of the most severe competitive control with other genes. In fact, many people who are thinking about the meaning of life come to this thought, because it is quite obvious that regardless of our desires - our instincts pushing each of us to reproduce. The task is to transfer your genes, it is before each of us. So, I repeat, from this point of view - we are no different from animals - we need to survive and multiply to continue the life of our species.

On the other hand, we still want to know, for the sake of what the ultimate goal we provide immortality not only to our genes, but in general, human genes, we want to understand - what is the meaning of human life in general. After all, as Viktor Frankan wrote in his books - reducing the meaning of life to the continuation of the kind, we are not responding to this eternal question, we do not close it completely, but shift it on our descendants. I rather agree with this point of view than I agree, since ignorance by man the ultimate goal of existence and development in general in the universe does not leave the question of the meaning of life open. I believe that we, people, intermediate links in some big business, we are some of the idea, or perhaps a part of the experiment conducted by someone who created the universe with all its laws. This is possible, you will agree. Our task is to play a role for a certain period of time in the material world, and perhaps in the intangible, after which, we must provide such an opportunity to other people - our descendants. I would compare us, people - with individual frames of the film, which should make their work within just a fraction of a second, but of which ultimately the whole film is obtained with meaning. Here we are - a particle of the universal meaning of life, and this is the objective meaning of our own life. Thus, our genes seek to extend their immortality, and we must help them in this in order to allow them to come to what the universe will come to them.

Do we need to know about what the universe seems to seek what her own or who has created it, the ultimate goal? I do not think that we need to know. I think everything has my time. Perhaps we will not know this, but our descendants will know more, they will know the world even better and will understand something that we do not understand now. We see the instincts that laid in us with the instincts that we need to survive and multiply, and also to do everything so that humanity does not just survive, but also developed, it means that this is what we need to do without breaking our heads The result will end the existence of humanity. This is the meaning of our life, an objective meaning. However, it is possible to reflect on this topic, because it is a very interesting topic. And we will do it.

Now let's talk about more interesting - about the subjective sense of our life, that is, about what we ourselves can want to live. Think over that for what, for what cause, do you want to live your life just you? Do not look for the meaning of life - come up with the meaning of yourself. Decide yourself - for which you live. There are no such choice in animals - their lives are tuned solely on self-reproduction, for the sake of an objective point, that is, for the sake of some ultimate goal, to which nature, universe, and / or the one who created it. But we can choose to choose what to devote our lives, in addition to the main goal - the continuation of a kind. Is not that great? In my opinion, it's just wonderful, we are just lucky - we can live not only to achieve some unknown goal to us, to which the universe seeks, but for the sake of something that we can call - the subjective meaning of our life . And each of us may have their ideas about what to live for what. Our goals in our life can also be different. So ensuring the immortality of its genes and in general the genes of humanity, we can also live for themselves - by realizing themselves in some significant and interesting things for us, having achieved success in something that it is important for us, and thus leaving our The name in history, or simply, without any hope of glory, giving humanity something that after our death will benefit him and exist for a very long time. This approach to life makes her monstrously interesting. After all, we can make any fairy tale, pleased with yourself and others.

It is still very important to understand that the life of every person is in his own way unique, like the person himself. It follows from this that each of us came to this world to play a role in keeping their contribution to the history and development of humanity and the universe. From each of us there is benefits, the life of every person is priceless and makes sense! Therefore, whatever you make a choice, deciding what to devote your life, in any case you will make the right choice - you will play the role that will contribute to the development of the entire Universe. The history of the life of every person who ever lived on Earth is invaluable experience for the universe, we all with you are part of the whole whole, without us there can be no integer. Therefore, your life is in itself, no matter how you live it - it makes sense to us all, as it is part of us all. As a person cannot consist only of bones or only meat, and the Universe cannot be holistic without each of us and cannot develop without the experience of each individual. So the life of each of you, dear readers, priceless! Even if you cannot transfer your genes further and you will not achieve anything for your life, do not create anything substantial - your life will not be meaningless. You still make your contribution to the general history of mankind and the history of the Universe, it will simply be small, important, necessary, but small. Just do not forget that you can always achieve more, so strive for more, try to be a more significant person, both for others and for yourself.

And yet, how to make a choice - what to devote your life? I suppose it should be devoted to something that will remain on the century and will serve humanity for many years. It seems to me that this is the best option for any person who wants to live your life brightly and interesting. Make your contribution to our story, Give the world something that will make it richer, better, more beautiful, and I assure you, you will feel huge satisfaction from your life, you will feel your importance - you will find the meaning of life. Each of us is not so much measurable, so every spent a minute wasted - this is a lost particle of life. Therefore, you do not need to wait anything - you need to go and do something ambitious and outstanding. Some of us will be able to successfully convey their genes and thus find genetic immortality, and someone will do something for humanity, which will remind him of it for long years. But there are also such people - who will simply go their lives and have a wonder in the fly, not leaving, no offspring, no significant results of their work, no heritage. This is perhaps the worst thing for a person - when there is practically no sense in his life when he just lives to live his life to, so to speak, leave the number and leave this world forever. But this is not the fate of a person - it is pretty much his choice. I will not talk for everyone, there are different situations, but many of us have a choice - how to live your life. We can strive to leave after yourself worthy offspring or some significant results for humanity, and better and more, it is possible. And we can just burn your life, without remembering and not only leaving after yourself not only worthy, but in general no offspring.

Above I wrote that one way or another, we all contribute to the history of mankind and in the development of the universe, so there is a sense in the life of every person, the life of every person is priceless. But this does not mean that we do not need to strive to leave your mark in the world. After all, the more we leave after themselves, the most of all we will have time to do in your life, the more satisfied our life we \u200b\u200bwill.

So, friends, the choice is yours - decide how and for what you will live. Whether there will be a sense of life for you to follow the laws of nature, the laws of the Universe, or if you want the laws of God, according to which you need to transfer our genes as successful as possible, while continuing the human genus, and / or you decide to achieve outstanding success in what "Something to keep something significant after leaving people, humanity, all the world." It is quite possible to succeed in both of the same. Leave after yourself worthy offspring and implement yourself in some important to you and preferably for other people to do to leave your mark in this world, and you will be fully satisfied with your life, because it will be really great meaning. I wish you good luck in this!