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Reading Day Five

Reading Day Five. From “Earlier I mentioned art” to “ “. What has been Learned from Man’s Search for Meaning?. Do I Really Believe in Free Will? Isn’t Frankl Simply Re-Hashing Clichés About “Positive Thinking”?  Is Man’s Search for Meaning a Religion?  Is All Meaning Equal? 

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Reading Day Five

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  1. Reading Day Five From “Earlier I mentioned art” to “ “

  2. What has been Learned from Man’s Search for Meaning? • Do I Really Believe in Free Will? • Isn’t Frankl Simply Re-Hashing Clichés About “Positive Thinking”?  • Is Man’s Search for Meaning a Religion?  • Is All Meaning Equal?  • Do I Really Believe That Suffering Leads to Meaning?  • What Is Frankl’s Ultimatum?  • How Do We Rank Ourselves on the Meaning Scale?  • How Does the Cult of Youth Impede Us from Finding Meaning?  • At What Point Does Consumerism Impede Our Quest to Find Meaning?  • How Do We Rank on the Dreaded Deathbed Test?  • How Do We Let Go of the Things That Are Killing Us?  • How Can We Avoid the Common Life of Fraud and Deception?  • How Do We Not Despise Our Lives?  • How Do We Know What Life Demands from Us?  • Why Can’t Meaning be Handed to Us on a Silver Platter?  • When Is Selfishness Vital to Meaning?  • How Does Self-Effacing Humor Lead to Meaning? 

  3. Counterpoints to Frankl • One. • Battle between Meaning Vs. the Cynicism of Nothingbutness and Determinism

  4. Counterpoints to Frankl • Two. • Bare Existence Vs. the Common Life and the Existential Vacuum

  5. Counterpoints to Frankl • Three. • Misguided Self-Preservation Vs. Purposeful Self-Preservation (Death in Tehran)

  6. Counterpoints to Frankl • Four. • Logotherapy Vs. Psychotherapy • Truth from Within Vs. Imposed Dogma; you don’t choose meaning; meaning finds you

  7. Counterpoints to Frankl • Five.   • Is Suffering Senseless as Bart Ehrman argues or can we find meaning from it? Also: Frankl’s Moral Code (We must be worthy of our suffering. What’s that mean?) 12 Tenets 

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