Viziunea pluralistă a sensului vieții sau viața fără nici un sens. Câteva considerații teologice pe marginea unor reflecții filosofice
Pluralist view of the meaning of life or life without meaning. Some theological considerations on some philosophical reflections

Author(s): Ciprian Apostol
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion
Published by: Editura Doxologia
Keywords: meaning of life; new paradigm; plurality of meaning; Eastern Christianity; mystery of life;
Summary/Abstract: In addition to giving meaning to life ourselves – as if life did not already have a meaning – and intimately related to this, no longer to conceive the meaning of life as a religious matter appealing to God in this regard, one might also add that with Friedrich Nietzsche, and the analogy he proposes – namely, that between life and text – it seems that life comes to be seen no longer as having a single meaning, but several meanings. This is one of those three specificities of the new paradigm regarding the meaning of life. In the pages of this study, I firstly want to highlight its connection with the other two specificities (it is man who gives meaning to life; the question of the meaning of life is no longer a matter for religion). In this way we will see that we are truly witnessing a new paradigm in terms of man's understanding of the meaning of life in recent times. In the second part, I will bring to your attention a few observations that highlight a certain concern about the plurality of the meaning of life. In the third part, I will analyse, from a theological perspective, the relationship between the meaning of life and the meanings of life. And finally, in the last part of this study, we will observe how, in a certain sense, the plurality of the meaning of life can even belong to Christian teaching.

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