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The purpose of life is to participate in evolution through action

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The statement from the title of this post is the result of combining several ideas which I present below. This is still a very vague statement (in which the words “evolution” and “action” could and should be interpreted liberally), but it seems at least a little less vague than some statements on the purpose or the meaning of life proposed by philosophers in the past. One of the possible formulations of the meaning of life in Christianity and Judaism is the evolution of the soul: getting rid of sin. Salvation could be seen as an evolutionary transition (in biology, this means the emergence of a new level of organization). Reincarnation is also reminiscent of the soul’s evolution. “Making the world a better place”, a popular utilitarian conception of the meaning of life could be seen as a contribution to the evolution of the “world”. By the “world”, the believer means either the world’s economy, or the world’s society, or the biosphere, or some combination thereof. See the paper “Toward

The purpose of life is to participate in evolution through action Apr 11, 2022 1 Share The statement from the title of this post is the result of combining several ideas which I present below. This is still a very vague statement (in which the words “evolution” and “action” could and should be interpreted liberally), but it seems at least a little less vague than some statements on the purpose or the meaning of life proposed by philosophers in the past. Most conceptions of meaning and value could be cast in terms of evolution One of the possible formulations of the meaning of life in Christian

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