ABSTRACT
‘Significance’ and ‘meaning’: weighty words, even for philosophers! What makes some things more meaningful: for me, or for others, or for our culture? We tend nowadays to see ourselves as creators of significance. We attach significance to our contact with people we feel close to, or to what we accomplish, or to our own ideals. Real significance or meaning doesn’t emerge on its own. Most of us think we have to bestow meaning on the world around us because, taken in itself, reality lacks any meaning or purpose.
