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I have argued that the existential question about the ultimate meaning of life may be understood in two distinctly different ways, "because there are two senses of the phrase, 'the meaning of life,' which may be distinguished as its 'subjectivist' and its 'objectivist' senses respectively" (Notebooks, 24 August 2003). I have since wondered whether this distinction may perhaps parallel that between "mystical" and "prophetic (apocalyptic)" types of religion. Or are the two distinctions really so related that the "subjectivist/objectivist" cuts across the "mystical/prophetic"?

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