"4541","Morality and a Meaningful Life","This essay aims to capture the intuition that the moral person is, in virtue of being such, favored over the immoral person to lead a meaningful life.  It is argued that the reason for this is that the moral person is open to affirmation from others in a way that the immoral person is not.  Central to the argument is that idea of psychological health.  Being affirmed by others is a fundamental aspect of being psychologically health.  Thus, being moral and being psychologically healthy are said to dovetail with respect to leading a meaningful life.  The argument regarding psychological health draws upon, and extends, P. F. Strawson’s seminal essay “Freedom and Resentment”.  Also in this regard, Wittgenstein’s argument against the possibility of a private language is extended to social behavior generally.  ","http://cogprints.org/4541/","Thomas, Laurence","UNSPECIFIED","       <span class=\"person_name\">Thomas, Laurence</span>     (2005)  <a href=\"http://cogprints.org/4541/\"><em>Morality and a Meaningful Life.</em></a>       [Preprint]           ","","2005-09"