PHIL102 Semester 2, 2020 Assessment 3: Essay Plan Student name Thi Kim Ngan Nguyen Student number S XXXXXXXXXX Topic Does death give meaning to life? Word count (excluding reference list) 171 (1)...

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PHIL102 Semester 2, 2020 Assessment 3: Essay Plan Student name Thi Kim Ngan Nguyen Student number S00282529 Topic Does death give meaning to life? Word count (excluding reference list) 171 (1) Essay question: Does death give meaning to life? (2) My statement of the position: Death is necessary to make life meaningful because the awareness of death motivates people to participate in meaningful activities; and death is the prevention of intolerant boredom, which is the result of immortal life.  (3) The key points: · The awareness of mortality is a motivator provoking people to live a meaningful life: - People with immortal life would postpone their activities as they have forever to do it. - The awareness of death triggers people to value their time, and therefore to live a fuller life.  - Human exhibits significant virtues when it comes to survival.  · Death prevents lives from being meaningless: - The definition of meaningful lives and meaningless lives: life only has meanings when people are passionate about pursuing their dreams and desires. - Each person has their own determined desires, which would be unchanging over time. The desires would be exhausted because of the repetition in immortal life, and that makes lives meaningless.    (4) Annotated bibliography:  Frankl, Viktor. 1986. The Doctor and the Soul. Translated by Richard and Clara Winston. New York: Vintage Books. I used this paper to support the statement that death is a crucial component of the meaningfulness of lives. This is a published book, which was written by the accredited author.  Goldman, A. H. 2018. ‘’Meaning in Life’’. In Life's Values: Pleasure, Happiness, Well-Being, and Meaning. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198829737.003.0004 I used this paper to define repetition as a factor contributing to the meaningless life. This is the book chapter of a published book, which was written by the accredited author. Kass, Leon .2001. “L’Chaim and Its Limits: Why Not Immortality?” First Things, no.113: 17-24. I used this paper to indicate death’s effect on moral behaviours. This is a peer-reviewed journal article, which is examined before publishing. Williams, Bernard .1973. “The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality,” In Problems of the Self, edited by Bernard Williams, 82-100. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. I used this paper to indicate how the immortal life would be meaningless. This is the book chapter of a published book, which was written by the accredited author.