Netanyahu's Rivals Circle as New Knesset Moves to Undo Legacy

Israel's newly elected Knesset has wasted no time confronting Benjamin Netanyahu, with rival blocs moving against the pillars of his long premiership within days of taking their seats. Lawmakers are advancing measures to roll back policies the veteran leader spent years entrenching, treating the election result as

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Last Night's Scores

The Raptors

• Toronto dropped a tight 93-98 decision to Boston last night, marking the second straight loss for a squad that has won only two of its last five.
• The team travels to Philadelphia tonight to face the 76ers at 7:00 PM ET at Xfinity Mobile Arena.
• Defense held firm against the Celtics, but the offense struggled to keep pace with Jayson Tatum's 24 points and 8 assists.

Next game: TOR @ Philadelphia 76ers — Thursday Nov 12, 7:00 PM ET — at Xfinity Mobile Arena

Around the NBA

• Brooklyn demolished New Orleans 145-111 behind 22-point efforts from both Michael Porter Jr. and E. Demin.
• Victor Wembanyama dominated the paint with 32 points and 9 rebounds to lift San Antonio to a 124-119 victory over Chicago.
• Portland secured a surprising 118-108 win over Oklahoma City, while Houston fended off Golden State 115-108.
• Los Angeles took down Milwaukee 123-112, adding to a busy night where Denver beat Memphis 123-118.

The Meaning of Life

Between the alarm clock and the evening commute, most people quietly wonder whether any of it adds up. The question surfaces at funerals, in hospital waiting rooms, on Sunday nights when the coming week looks identical to the last. Careers are chosen around it, religions organized to answer it, midlife crises staged in its name. Philosophers call it the problem of life's meaning, and the discipline has built a surprisingly precise toolkit for a question usually filed under 3 a.m.

The first piece of housekeeping involves deciding what is being asked. Contemporary philosophers distinguish the meaning *of* life — whether humanity, or the universe as a whole, has a purpose — from meaning *in* life, which concerns whether an individual person's existence can exhibit significance. Almost all current work targets the second question, since the first appears answerable only if a god created the species for a reason, and secular accounts of cosmic purpose remain scarce. Meaningfulness itself gets separated from neighboring ideas like happiness, moral goodness, and a felt sense of purpose: a person can be fulfilled by a worthless project, or miserable while doing something genuinely worthwhile. The jargon here is minimal but load-bearing. A life counts as "absurd," for instance, when it is not pointless exactly, but caught between two unavoidable perspectives.

Thomas Nagel made absurdity the hinge of the modern debate. His analysis locates it in a clash: we pursue careers, achievements, and romances with total seriousness, yet we retain a permanent ability to step back and view those pursuits with detached irony. The conflict never resolves, and Nagel doubts that anything — religion included — dissolves it, though he counsels wry appreciation over despair.

Viktor Frankl approached from the opposite direction. A Viennese psychiatrist who survived Auschwitz, he argued in *Man's Search for Meaning* that meaning is not invented but discovered — through work, through love, and through the stance a person takes toward unavoidable suffering. His "logotherapy" treats the craving for significance as the primary human drive rather than a philosophical indulgence. Patients who lost it, he observed, decayed faster than those who kept a reason to live.

Susan Wolf, a leading contemporary voice, splits the difference. Meaning arises, she argues, when subjective attraction meets objective attractiveness: you must love what you do, and what you do must be genuinely worth loving. Obsessive sudoku-playing fails the first test; grinding away at admirable work you hate fails the second. The formula sounds neat, but its objective half smuggles in a large assumption.

Where does objective worth come from? If it requires a cosmic ground such as God, non-believers are shut out of meaning in its fullest sense. Without one, someone must explain how a universe of blind physical processes could contain facts about what merits our devotion. The tempting move is to accept that meaning is conferred rather than discovered — a human projection, no less real for being ours. Yet that answer sits uneasily beside the longing that started the inquiry. People asking about life's meaning typically want to know what their lives are *for*, not merely how to feel about them. Whether that desire tracks something in the world or only something in us remains the question nobody has closed.

Want to go deeper? Read the full Stanford Encyclopedia entry on The Meaning of Life →

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