A SYSTEMIC PRAGMATIST THEORY OF THE MEANING OF LIFE

摘要

Life is a biochemical condition. Life writ large is a challenging mystery. Living ranges from a struggle for survival to an exhilirating process of seeking self and social actualization. Physical science has largely laken a measurable, reductionist, paradigmatic view; humanistic approaches range from story to myth in lived experience: social science takes a middle road, combining elements of its older sister disciplines. Post-modernist views seek to deconstruct all roads, but rarely Jo they reconstruct (hem into a new synthesis. Can the many cultures debate help us arrive at a holislic, synthetic, ethical and fulfilling lifestyle? A barc-bones graphic general systemic, four-box flow diagram will be used as a starling point for provoking discussion, contrasted with a number of maxims for good living.