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Human Meaning and Original Sin

June 23, 2020June 23, 2020 / Thomas Harper / 5 Comments

What is the meaning of life? This question is profound, but has become so cliche that its profundity is often overlooked. The problem, though, is that to produce an answer to the question requires that we hold prerequisite suppositions: what is the nature of humanity? Where does meaning originate? Does meaning itself have some yet other transcendent meaning?

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