basic patterns of life and meaning

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Basic Patterns of Life and

Meaning

Ferenczi Viola

German Smaranda

LMA III

Prof. Nicolae Cristina


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What is the meaning of life ?

people's lives are full of meaning.

Ferenczi Viola LMA III


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Life is a process, not a puresubstance, which involveschanges.



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The term of meaning is defined like

thething, action,feeling, idea, etc. thatawordorwords

represent.

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Creating the meaning of

your own life sounds

very nice as an ideal,

but in reality it may be

impossible.



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By the time the person

learns to talk (and thus

to use and communicatemeaning) he or she

already has probably

been assigned numerous

meaningsa name, ahome, a position in the

social hierarchy, perhaps

a bank account or moneyset aside, and some long-

range plans.



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Our identity consists of inner

qualities and outer

representations of self.



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Since the beginning of human history, people

have used explanations, logic and reasoning in

order to explain the human life. To explain whythings happen and to advance ourselves.



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The meaning is not as simplest conception as we

think heard first this word.. The most simplest

uses of meaning associate labels (such as names,

dates, color, shape) to specific, immediate objects.

These uses of meaning tend to be concrete and tobe limited in time. In contrast, the highest levels

of meaning may refer to complex, far-reaching

relationships that transcend the immediatesituation and may even approach timeless or

eternal perspectives.



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An important part of

socialization is

learning thestandards of one's

social group, along

with learning how toconform to those

standards.



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German Smaranda LMA III


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You will never behappy if you continue to

search for whathappiness consists of.

You will never live if

you are looking for the

meaning of life. Albert Camus



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Needs for Meaning


The needs that a personrequires in order to givemeaning to his life are:purpose, value, efficacyand self-worth.


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The first need and in

Eric Klingers opinion,

the most important, isthat of purpose.



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Goals together with fulfillments are the twocategories that make up the purposes.

The difference between these two is that goals areextrinsic purposes and fulfillments are intrinsic

purposes. The common feature of the two is thepositive affect. Both goals and fulfillments can makeyou feel good.


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Valuesare the principlesand beliefs that

influence the behaviourand way of life of a

particular group or

community.



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The moral system -

1.relating to right and

wrong and the way

people should behave;2.principles of right and

wrong behaviour that

are generally acceptedby a society.



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The third need that I have mentioned in the

lines above is efficacywhich is formaleffectiveness in producing the result that youintended.


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Self worthis in fact the fourth and final need. If peoplefeel that they are worthy this feeling will make them feel

accomplished it will give meaning to their life and it will

make them feel productive, happy and above all, superiorto others because in the end that is what people strive for,

to be above their piers.


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If having a purpose in

life, if having a set of

morals, if feeling

valuable and feeling

accomplished and self-

worthy

can make a persons lifemeaningful than their

lack will eventually

make that person somiserable that he will

stop caring.


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During our lives we are in search of the better, of thehigher levelin everything that surrounds us. If something is meaningless we as human beings will give

it a meaning to better understand it when we come in

contact. We catalog, we analyze, we give names to make

life easier.


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Completenessis basically the assumption thateverything makes sense, and in fact everything shouldmake sense in ones life but in many times, in most time

unfortunately, things do not make sense.


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Consistencyis the ability to remain the same in behaviour,attitudes or qualities. We as human beings need

consistency in our life, and it is my personal opinion that

it would be hard for us to live a normal life withouthaving consistency.


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The notion of the myth of fulfillment talks about whatwe believe to be fulfillment but in fact is just a state, in

many cases an induced state of mind that makes us feel

accomplished and happy and because of this we see it asfulfillment.


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As a conclusion, I believe that we are guided in our life

by what we need, what we think we need and what we

do not need.

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bringit to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when

you are the answer. Joseph Campbell


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Thank you for yourattention!


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Bibliography:

1. Meaning of Life, Roy F. Baumeister, 1991, 13-14

2. http://www.macmillandictionary.com/thesaurus-category/american/General-words-for-meaning

3. cf. Rothbaum, Weisz, & Snyder, 1982

4. The Stranger or The Outsider (Ltranger), by Albert Camus, published in 1942

5. Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners, project manager KatyMcAdam, 2006

6. The Power of Myth, by Joseph Campbell , released 1988

7. http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/meaning-of-life

8. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110206013740AA0cPlj 9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Myth
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