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on issues such as determinism spirituality or human evolution
and fate, all of which have argue that life has no meaning.
resulted in anxiety and fear. Kafka considers death as
Cognitive distortions have the opposite of happiness,
burdened individuals with a sense while Schopenhauer sees death
of emptiness and meaninglessness, as a tragic end to endless
causing them to experience suffering.
anxiety. (May, 2009: 44) Camus believes that life
The overwhelming dominance has no existence after death
of technology has caused and there is no rational world
humans to remain lost order imposed by a divine
between the traditions of the power, and humans are
past and the tumult of the incapable of bestowing superior
modern era. The failure of meaning upon life. Therefore, the
modernist ideals has led to a possibility of meaningfulness
disregard for truth, even in its in life disappears. (Williams,
conceptual form. 1999: 75)
In postmodern nihilism, The philosophical perspectives
meaning and truth, whether and opinions of various thinkers
objective or subjective, are in this regard demonstrate that
denied, along with the denial meaninglessness is a
of values, without any attempt multifaceted issue and requires
to replace them with new various approaches for
values. This is presented as a intervention and resolution.
solution to escape from this
crisis. (Slocombe, 2006:152) 2. Belief in the Originality
Many thinkers who have of Meaning
failed to find meaning in The weariness of the era of
modernity and the growing
