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[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (9 children)

Philosophers tend to avoid that question and argue about extremely niche things like Ship of Theseus problems.

[–] bananabenana@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Lol what are you on about. There is an entire body of active philosophical work about the meaning of life: https://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?as_ylo=2024&q=meaning+of+life+philosophy&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

My impression of it being like that is largely due to the split between analytic and continental philosophy. Anglophone universities tend to focus on the former and then the latter has a larger body of work from mainland Europe; the many French existentialist philosophers would be a good example.

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