Meaning, anti‐alienation, and fulfillment
Abstract One intuition that motivates subjectivist theories about meaning in life is the anti‐alienation intuition, that is, for a life to be meaningful it must engage with the person whose life it is. This article contends that the anti‐alienation and subjectivist theories it motivates are best understood as tracking fulfillment in life; this is an axiologically distinct evaluative dimension a life can have, which stands apart from meaning.
Authors
- Chad Mason Stevenson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8382-4328)
Institutions
- Australian National University (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Southern Journal of Philosophy
- Published
- 2025-04-15
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/sjp.12628
- Primary Topic
- Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00