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The problem of meaning by Terry Eagleton
The Meaning of Life

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Marxist

Marxists, for instance, are usually atheists, but they believe that human life, or what they would prefer to call ‘history’, has a meaning in the sense of displaying a significant pattern.

—p.43 The problem of meaning (33) by Terry Eagleton
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bathos

What is amusing about Deep Thought’s ‘42’ is not just the bathos of it

—p.42 The problem of meaning (33) by Terry Eagleton
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bombast

Like a bombastic speech, life appears to be meaningful but is actually vapid.

—p.41 The problem of meaning (33) by Terry Eagleton
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unctuous

Michael Palin as an unctuous Anglican vicar in the Monty Python film, ‘The Meaning of Life’.

—p.31 Questions and answers (1) by Terry Eagleton
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