Study Questions

  1. What is Sisyphus condemned to do? What is it about Sisyphus’s task that renders it meaningless, in Taylor’s view? What could be done to give Sisyphus’s task meaning?
  2. What two types of meaning in life does Taylor distinguish? Which does he think is preferable, and why? Do you agree with his assessment?
  3. What is the point of life, according to Taylor? Where does he think that meaning in life comes from? Do you find his view plausible? Why or why not?
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