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In this paper I discuss the view, put forward by several people from Aristotle to
Russell, that knowledge is the ultimate purpose and meaning of human life, and I find it
wanting. I also argue that all attempts to show that human life has a meaning from an external
and higher point of view have been unsuccessful, human life having a meaning only from an
internal point of view. I discuss such meaning and argue that, while knowledge is not the
ultimate purpose and meaning of human life, it is a precondition of its meaning from an
internal point of view.
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