Mmmm. To answer this question is necesary answer before : What is the Live?
If we don't answer this premise, all philosophical things that we can write are empty.
It is very difficult describe the esence of the live. Science canīt mark one clear frontier in its field, but it say us that one being is Live if it reproduce, feed and relate.
But it is not enought. The Science can't explain the esence of the things. Only it can explain HOW are the things.
To answer the question of meaning of Live, we have to use other human knowledge fields. In specially the Philosophy and the Religion.
Because, if we only use Science to answer the question, it only it will give us this: There is not meaning for Live. Simply, it is an ephemeral accident.
But we know it is not true. All the reality have logics laws. Using only the Reason, we can find this laws. All can discover new knowledges the own nature. The Universe is it not absurd. If it would be absurd, we couldn't discover anything. The physics laws would be change all the time.
Most probably, we couldn`t exist.
Then, we know that the Universe it is not absurd. Maybe is not intuitive. But It is logical.
If the Live was an accident, we have a problem. We have an absurd. Donīt have sense all the lives of all the beings, people and civilizations?
Our Universe is, probably, 15 billions years old. Our sun and Solar System are 4,5 billions years old. Our existence, less than 50,000 years old.
We will disappear, like others disappeared. All the species and civilizations have had an end. We can remember they. But, who will remember us?
The remember is not the meaning. One day, the Sun will wipe out. The Earth was destroy. Maybe the protons will decay. All the things that could exist, disappear. Nothing will have sense.
This is the absurd. We have an logic reality with an absurd esence.
This is the reasons the Human Being have the most important difference respect the others beings in the universe. The yearning of infinity.
This yearning can explain the true function of religions. They quench this thirsty.
All humans need something beyond. It is our nature. Like the dogs bark, and the sun light, the human being need something beyond himself.
We can see it in our desire of progress in ours lives and ours society. What reason can explain the art, the science and the culture? Only this. Always we need more and more. We are insatiable.
Finally, this give us the answer to original question. Meaning of Live? To get to the infinity.
How we can get it? Whit the True. Because The Truth Shall Make You Free, and Free is the Human Being. It's their nature, their right and their duty.
Other answers, like Love, come after this.
PD. And this is the logic reason that a lot of human beings believe in God. Althought someone of them donīt know it.
PD2. This is my opinion. Excuse me my horrible English. This post has been edited 1 times. The last edit took place 16.08.09, 02:54. |