The question of life’s meaning arises only on the reflective level

Evidence

The ensemble of these references is void of meaning but in this sensethat the possibility of positing the problem of meaning on this level does not exist. We work to live and we live to work. The question of the meaning of the totality “life-work”—“Why do I work, I who am living? Why live if it is in order to work?”—this can be posited only on the reflective level since it implies a self-discovery on the part of the for-itself. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 620

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The question of life’s purpose arises only when routine unexpectedly breaks down — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 485; Reflective thought arises only at crisis moments and is usually suppressed. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 985

Broader Connections

• The question of life’s purpose arises only when routine unexpectedly breaks down #epitomizes (0.85) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 485
• Reflective thought arises only at crisis moments and is usually suppressed. #corroborates (0.85) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 985