What is the best account of meaning in life? What are some examples that can illustrate the key elements of your favored account? What are its two greatest strengths? What is its greatest potential weakness? [about ¾ – 1 page]
What is the difference between subjective, objective, and subjective-hybrid accounts of meaning in life? What is the difference between naturalist and supernaturalist accounts of meaning in life? What are some examples that can illustrate these distinctions? Which categories does your account fall under? [about ½ – 1 page]
Of the accounts of meaning in life we studied, which one of them (or combination of them) is most similar to your own? What are the central elements of that account (or accounts)? What are some examples that can illustrate those elements? How, if it at all, is your account unique? [about ½ – 1 page]
Of the thinkers we have studied, who are three who would disagree with your account? What are those thinkers’ central claims about meaning in life? How, specifically, would each thinker criticize your account? What are some examples that can illustrate these points? [about 1 ½ -3 pages]
How can you reply to each of these three criticisms? In other words, why do they not give us sufficient reason to reject your account? What are some examples that can illustrate your points? [1 ½ – 2 ¼ pages]