Discovered meaning

The thought that a life can answer to worth that the person did not invent.

This is not one school. It includes Aristotelian flourishing, some religious accounts, and secular realisms about value. The shared claim, on this axis, is only that worth can outrun endorsement. It does not require a cosmic script, and it does not make the people who lean this way wiser.

Six axes

• Meaning

Philosophers

• Aristotle
• Confucius
• Søren Kierkegaard

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “The Meaning of Life”