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Life Can be Worth Living
Huxley, Julian | October 8, 1938 issue

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In this article, the author focuses on philosophies of life, from historical, biological, psychological, socio-cultural, and philosophical perspectives. She believes that life can be worth living in spite of pain, squalor, cruelty, unhappiness, and death. She suggests that man, as individual, as group, and collectively as mankind, can achieve a satisfying purpose in existence, in spite of frustration, aimlessness, frivolity, boredom, sloth, and failure. According to her, there is always a scale or hierarchy of values in human world; historically or contemporarily; ranging from simple physical comforts up to the highest satisfactions of love, aesthetic enjoyment, intellect, creative achievement, and virtue.

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LIFE; CONDUCT of life; VALUES; SOCIAL order; HUMAN beings; KNOWLEDGE, Theory of; INTELLECT; SOCIAL psychology
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