Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Emil Frankl
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This book is a
book of realistic optimism. Victor E. Frankl explores the existential
nihilism found in much of the world today, especially in our Post Modern
thought. Sophists would claim that there is no meaning in the world.
It is easy to buy yourself an existential vaccum, but it sucks up all
meaning.
But what then? What would Daryl Hannah do?
Atlas holds the world but who holds Atlas? And if Atlas stands
on-top of turtles than who is the squashed turtle on the bottom of the pile?
There is pain in this world. There is
suffering, and much of this suffering is not decipherable, but we must go on
finding our meaning in this world. One becomes happy when one finds the
answer beyond the number 42 for what is the reason for God, the universe, and
self. Frankl claimed the core principal to godly living is “to
live as if you were living for the second time and acts as wrongly the first
time as you are about to act now.”pg. 175,
I would recommend to anyone who might have
suffered, or is suffering, or will suffer in the future.
Man’s Search for Meaning would benefit everyone.
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