Difficulties such as loss and depression often make people question how their lives can be meaningful. Sometimes, they seek answers in mystical sayings, such as that everything happens for a reason ...

Psychological and philosophical studies have long shown that a person's subjective moods and emotions have a significant impact on how they experience the “meaning in life.” Philosopher Matthew ...

This week “Heidegger hysteria” reaches American shores with the release of the sequestered Black Notebooks [Schwarzen Hefte]of thisGerman philosopher, confirming his “deep-rooted and unambiguous” anti ...

Living unreconciled opens the way for rejection. Yet, rejection can never carry out what it implicitly requests: a thorough transformation of life. Without the element of the general, rejection is ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American This is the third in a series of posts on ...

Newman University this year opened a School of Catholic Studies -- good news for a Roman Catholic institution struggling with enrollment declines. In addition to offering seminarians new place to ...

It’s one of humanity’s biggest questions, and there’s no simple answer, but let’s give it a try anyway: what is the meaning of life? We asked a philosopher and a physicist to shed some light on the ...