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Many believe that unless a divine entity or transcendent reality has provided the world with ultimate purpose or value, life is meaningless.

A) True
B) False

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Before Tolstoy's Christian conversion, his perspective on the meaning of life was

A) optimist.
B) pessimist.
C) nominally religious.
D) satisfied.

E) None of the above
F) B) and D)

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Baggini argues that the notion of a God assigning a purpose to humans should be _______ to believers and nonbelievers alike.

Before Tolstoy experienced his Christian conversion, he was

Philosophers distinguish life's value or meaning from happiness and moral rightness.

Pessimists regarding life's meaning believe that life can have no meaning if

Is life meaningless because we and our world are so miniscule compared to the inconceivably vast cosmos, because life for us is so filled with misery and loss, or because there is no god or creator to give us a purpose or plan for living? Explain.

Some maintain that the idea of God creating people for a purpose is an affront to human dignity.