01 Dec 2009
This is the question which is interesting for all of us and a lot of people were thinking about this question in all times. Many philosophers were asking this question and trying to answer, so were doing their students. However, wordings were not concrete in varied teachings. Years were running like a river and a huge amount of different theories appeared. Each generation has some special opinion and purpose to reach, thought that somewhere exists right formula of correct life living.
As was said nowadays exists a lot of different theories and I want to tell about the most popular and well- known.
The nineteenth century
In the nineteenth century was strong motion called utilitarianism. The representatives of this motion confirmed that the meaning of life is to be happy. All things, which give you maximum happiness, lead you to find this sense and reach the final destination.
A little later appeared nihilists. They denied the possibility of existence some high knowledge or truth about the sense of life. However, they confirmed that nothing in world matters. But they did not take into account that their own principle could be used to themselves. Consequently, nihilism does not matter anything too.
