In five pages this paper discusses how meaning is defined through morality and ethics in this examination of Viktor E. Frankl's text. Two sources are cited in the bibliography.
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is Viktor E. Frankl, a remarkable individual who has brought to bear his own interpretation of meaning through his life experiences. In his book entitled Mans Search for Meaning,
Frankl manipulates his time spent in Nazi concentration camps as a means by which to reach deep down within his soul to find a will to live. Indeed, by
using such a horrific period as a parallelism for searching out lifes meaning, Frankl quite successfully draws in his readers so that they might also readily associate with the way
in which he achieved this monumental goal. "It is easy for the outsider to get the wrong conception of camp life, a conception mingled with sentiment and pity.
Little does he know of the hard fight for existence which raged among the prisoners. This was an unrelenting struggle for daily bread and for life itself, for ones
own sake or for that of a good friend" (Frankl PG). Frankls best-selling book addresses humanitys inherent desire to associate our existence
with some semblance of meaning. Whether this meaning is truth and beauty, comfort and happiness or any other pertinent combination, the author contends that each person harbors the hope
of making sense out of life with the help of establishing significance to it. "Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is.
After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lords Prayer
or the Shema Yisrael on his lips" (Frankl PG). Working on the assumption that most people live their lives out of habit and