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Discuss briefly 5 ways of interpreting the meaning of life. These are the five meanings:

life as a story
life as a mission
life as learning
life as a relationship
life as a investment

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5 ways of interpreting the meaning of life:
life as a story
life as a mission
life as learning
life as a relationship
life as a investment

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MEANING OF LIFE

Proposed by Kathleen M. Higgins and Robert Solomon in

The Big Questions: A Short Introduction to Philosophy

The meaning of life constitutes a philosophical question concerning the purpose and significance of life or existence in general. The concept of the meaning of life is varied with the philosophical and religious conceptions of existence, consciousness, and happiness, and touches on many other issues such as symbolic meaning, ontology, value, purpose, ethics, good and evil, free will, conceptions of God, and the existence of God, the soul, and the ...

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