Maybe life is just an accident each time.

  • @blackbelt352
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    31 year ago

    Thats one of the big questions throughout all of philosophy.

    I’m pretty sure every major philosophical movement has tried to tackle that question and all came to different conclusions.

    The answer entirely depends on which philosophical framework you resonate with. Many religious philosophies will talk about how life is a divine spark and inherently worth living, or your life should be spent trying to do good to get a better reincarnation.

    Others will start with the meaningless and irrationality of the universe and draw various conclusions from those, many of those conclusions are some flavor of “we make our own meaning” (which nihilism and absurdism sound a bit like your idea of life being an accident every time)

    A lot of Greek philosophers, talked about our purpose was living virtuous lives but had different ideas what that “virtuous” entailed.

    I’m not well versed about various eastern/Asian philosophers, but the big names that come up are Confucius, Lao-tzu, and Siddhartha Gautama.