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The question of Purpose in Life is an ethical and philosophical question but is relevant and important to everyone of us as a human being. A purposeless life is like a free electron without a nucleus. It is important to think about our purpose of life. With increasing chaos , ambiguity, discomfort in the the world ,I think, we need to prioritise our preferences in life.
In my opinion the purpose of life is nothing except self realisation. The various faculties and potentialities in the humans have to be realised and actualised. With more discoveries about human brain, the bio-tech has exposed the reality of a lot of concepts which were developed by artists, poets, aestheticians and fictions writers. Similarly the reality of love , passion and various degrees and levels of instincts is getting clearer with the invention of nano-technology.
In brief the meaning of life is to unleash the potentialities in the bio-psychic mechanism of humans with the help of technology. Till physical and mathematical sciences become the sole litmus test for correctness of ideas, humanity is destined to suffer due to the variety of their subjective experiences about objectives realities.
The modern thinkers of human psychology for example the existentialists believe that Human have NO predetermined nature. However there are thinkers who believe in a fixed human nature and have put efforts to inquire about Human nature. It is another fact that Mcdougal, Adler, Frued, Jung ,Marx and Machiavellei [an even the some mulsim thinkers like Iqbal and Rafiuddin] do not agree to the existentialist perception. All of them do believe that humans have a fixed nature.
With the discovery of unconscious mind by Frued ,some thinkers have given explanations for the innate urge in the unconscious mind which drives the whole human behaviour. Among these thinkers there is a concensus on the existence of an urge but not on what that urge is. For example Adler says its the urge to dominate, Frued says it is the urge to sexual desires, Rafiuddin says it is the urge for beauty and perfection etc.
Let me give an example of a view on the Purpose of life after reflecting on human nature. J.P.Sartre's who is an Existentialist thinker says that Existence means human existence and it preceeds essence, character, nature and that "We create our own nature". This implies that:
1) There is no fixed pre determined purpose of human life.Human themselves set this purpose.
2) We have no predetermined nature or essence that controls what we are, what we do, or what is valuable for us.
3) We are free to act independently of outside influences.
4) We create our own human nature and values through these free choices.
When Sartre says that human life has no purpose it means that Human life has no "predetermined" purpose.
Once we understand that there should be a purpose then I am expecting that one has to justify that purpose.
Before the contributing and reflecting memebers go too far, I would like to limit the scope of my question to the the purpose of "human" life.
If anyone opines that Human life has no purpose like the pessimists of Schopenhaur type or existentialists like J.P.Sartre then the next logical question would be why would someone waste his/her time in struggling to achieve the ideal of freedom and prospertiy?
In my opinion the purpose of life is nothing except self realisation. The various faculties and potentialities in the humans have to be realised and actualised. With more discoveries about human brain, the bio-tech has exposed the reality of a lot of concepts which were developed by artists, poets, aestheticians and fictions writers. Similarly the reality of love , passion and various degrees and levels of instincts is getting clearer with the invention of nano-technology.
In brief the meaning of life is to unleash the potentialities in the bio-psychic mechanism of humans with the help of technology. Till physical and mathematical sciences become the sole litmus test for correctness of ideas, humanity is destined to suffer due to the variety of their subjective experiences about objectives realities.
The modern thinkers of human psychology for example the existentialists believe that Human have NO predetermined nature. However there are thinkers who believe in a fixed human nature and have put efforts to inquire about Human nature. It is another fact that Mcdougal, Adler, Frued, Jung ,Marx and Machiavellei [an even the some mulsim thinkers like Iqbal and Rafiuddin] do not agree to the existentialist perception. All of them do believe that humans have a fixed nature.
With the discovery of unconscious mind by Frued ,some thinkers have given explanations for the innate urge in the unconscious mind which drives the whole human behaviour. Among these thinkers there is a concensus on the existence of an urge but not on what that urge is. For example Adler says its the urge to dominate, Frued says it is the urge to sexual desires, Rafiuddin says it is the urge for beauty and perfection etc.
Let me give an example of a view on the Purpose of life after reflecting on human nature. J.P.Sartre's who is an Existentialist thinker says that Existence means human existence and it preceeds essence, character, nature and that "We create our own nature". This implies that:
1) There is no fixed pre determined purpose of human life.Human themselves set this purpose.
2) We have no predetermined nature or essence that controls what we are, what we do, or what is valuable for us.
3) We are free to act independently of outside influences.
4) We create our own human nature and values through these free choices.
When Sartre says that human life has no purpose it means that Human life has no "predetermined" purpose.
Once we understand that there should be a purpose then I am expecting that one has to justify that purpose.
Before the contributing and reflecting memebers go too far, I would like to limit the scope of my question to the the purpose of "human" life.
If anyone opines that Human life has no purpose like the pessimists of Schopenhaur type or existentialists like J.P.Sartre then the next logical question would be why would someone waste his/her time in struggling to achieve the ideal of freedom and prospertiy?
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