Consequentialism about Meaning in Life

Ben Bramble

Utilitas, 2015, vol. 27, issue 4, 445-459

Abstract: What is it for a life to be meaningful? In this article, I defend what I call Consequentialism about Meaning in Life (or CML for short), the view that (1) one's life is meaningful at time t just in case one's surviving at t would be good in some way, and (2) one's life was meaningful considered as a whole just in case the world was (or will be) made better in some way for one's having existed.

Date: 2015
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