Hate to say it but, love. In whichever form it comes, it is what gives life meaning in the most consistent pattern. That can also be self-love. Some questions have answers so banally obvious that no philosopher dares to give them.
Of course; to love someone or something is to attribite meaning to it, so this answer is bordering on tautology, except that love isnt the inly type of meaning-giving.
That is my counter question. Which Types of meaning can be discerned? Does life require all of them?
Is there a meaning that life can not endure? ( that is the philosopher trying to debanalize what he juat admitted to)
“Burning and looting tonight
Burning all illusion tonight”
I’m not sure if I would say “in whatever form it comes”. Some forms might be quite destructive and not love at all. Self love can be that too. But another form of self love might be seeking, finding and then living one’s purpose to the fullest on a positive note that is.
All of them?
For instance, name a type of meaning? Does value flow out of meaning or does meaning flow out of value?
I so value my space, solitude and silence often. Is that so because they add to the meaning of my life or …
I’m not sure what you mean by this. But for me I might say that life cannot endure having too much meaning at one time. I think we need to have our meaning, to experience it, in smaller dosages, even though at times we can’t help soaring.
Obviously, the other side of that where there is no meaning, where perhaps one feels him/her -self in total isolation with no human or otherwise connections, a sense of total lovelessness and disconnectiveness. Can you imagine the impetus, the desire it would take to move away from that, the courage and willfulness it would take to plow through it and transcend it? I think one must first plow before transcending - I think.
Now there is great meaning in that though we might fight it. Why, because it gives us what humans need - the struggle whereby we might evolve into something more…and more…
It’s like climbing to a mountaintop. It’s a struggle, it’s difficult but it’s also exhilarating and transcending.