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Finding Meaning and Sustaining Purpose in Later Life
2016Introduction My personal interest in the area of meaning and purpose in life is pastorally inspired and pastorally directed. During the second half of my fifty-year ministry I became increasingly fascinated by the evident resilience of church members, most of them women, in their seventies, eighties and nineties.
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Addiction recovery stories: Emma Roughley in conversation with Lisa Ogilvie
Advances in Dual Diagnosis: Policy, practice and research in mental health and substance usePurpose The purpose of this paper is to examine recovery through lived experience. It is part of a series that explores candid accounts of addiction and recovery to identify important components in the recovery process.
Emma Roughley, L. Ogilvie
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Addiction recovery stories: Claire McBride in conversation with Lisa Ogilvie
Advances in Dual Diagnosis: Policy, practice and research in mental health and substance useThe purpose of this paper is to examine recovery through lived experience. It is part of a series that explores candid accounts of addiction and recovery to identify important components in the recovery process. The G-CHIME model comprises six
C. McBride, L. Ogilvie
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God's purpose as irrelevant to life's meaning: reply to Affolter
Religious Studies, 2007AbstractElsewhere I have contended that if a God-centred account of meaning in life were true, it would not be because meaning comes from fulfilling God's purpose for us. Specifically, I have argued that this ‘purpose theory’ of life's meaning cannot be the correct God-based view since God would have to be atemporal, immutable, and simple for meaning ...
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5 The Meaning of Life: Mechanism and Purpose in the Sciences of Life and Mind
2014This chapter follows a thread through biology and psychology, focusing on the problem of mechanistic explanations and its alternatives. The author looks at Huxley's essay to understand how connections between living beings, minds, and questions of free will and agency were theorised by Victorian naturalists.
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Meaning of life as purpose of life
What do we refer to when we ask about the meaning of life? What do we mean by “meaning” here? To answer these questions is to give a concept of meaning. My aim is to defend purpose as one of the possible interpretations of meaning. After highlighting the difference between concept and conception of meaning, I will argue that the concept of meaning as ...openaire +1 more source
Constructing Meaning through Connection: Religious Perspectives on the Purpose of Life
The International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society, 2019Adam Callister +2 more
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Philosophy of Life’s Purpose: Finding Meaning in Existence
In Philosophy of Life’s Purpose: Finding Meaning in Existence, Prof. Dr. Yoesoep Edhie Rachmad, Ph.D., DBA., embarks on an intellectual odyssey to examine the fundamental question of why we exist. Published in 2001 under the auspices of The United Nations and The Education Training Centre, this work delves into the intricate interplay between human ...openaire +1 more source