Meaning

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mb - Focusing your life on experiences is so incredibly egoistic and small because these experiences end when your life ends rather focusing on building something that lasts is meaningful.

We need words for meaning. Communicating meaning. Nothing else

words

Is Meaning an archetype / archetypical (meta) construct / construct with archetypical properties?

Archetypes

When we lose our sense of meaning in everything we do and think we lose everything.--MB

Meaning is a feature of human nature

There might be concepts that are even universal across species, like pain.

Each species has their own framework for meaning.

Meaning is not exclusive to the human species.

Meaning & Empathy

Consequences

If we "should" base meaning on empathy

is a normative question

Empathy as framework to create meaning

pain ...

(own and of others)

... becomes meaningful / a guiding principle

reducing pain becomes a good

I was wrong when I said:

Without empathy there is no meaning

Without empathy there is no meaning. / Without empathy meaning does not exist.--MB

Meaning Requires/Needs Empathy

Meaning can be based upon different frameworks

Even a sociopath ...

by definition has no empathy

creates meaning usually around the individual's specific goals and objectives

The way of nature and the way of grace.

The way of nature

The fact if a person exhibits empathy or not and to which degree determines this persons' framework of meaning.

Definition