--- abstract: '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. ' altloc: [] chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Thomas given: Laurence honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2005-09 date_type: published datestamp: 2005-09-18 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/45/41 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 4541 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/4541/1/MeaningfulLife.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: ~ issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'P. F. Strawon, Wittgenstein, affirmation. meaningful life' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:11 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: FALSE publication: ~ publisher: ~ refereed: TRUE referencetext: |- “The Meanings of Life,” in David Schmidtz (ed.), Robert Nozick (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002) Thaddeus Metz in “The Concept of a Meaningful Life,” American Philosophical Quarterly 38 (2001) P. F. Strawson, "Freedom and Resentment,” Proceedings of the British Academy 48 (1962). Neera K. Badhwar (ed), Friendship: A Philosophical Reader (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993) Jean-Christophe Merle and Bernard N. Schumacher (eds), L’amitié (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2005) Bernard Boxill, “How Injustice Pays,” Philosophy and Public Affairs 9 (1980) Philippa Foot, “Moral Belief,” Virtues and Vices (New York: Oxford University California Press, 2002) relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 12 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 17:00:40 subjects: - phil-ethics succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: Morality and a Meaningful Life type: preprint userid: 3947 volume: ~