Ethics and Meaning of Life in the Philosophy of Thomas Nagel

Talking about the meaning of life and tying ethics and moral living with meaningful life, apart from any belief, has always been in the deep philosophical thought. Nigel made efforts in this field, who has his own intellectual-and-philosophical paradigms in the path of connecting biological ethics and meaningfulness of life. The purpose of the present research is to know the relationship between morality and meaning of life from philosophical perspective.

The used methodological approach is qualitative in which, through the analysis of Nigel works on ethics and the meaning of life, it has been achieved.

Believing in the alternative principle in ethics, Nigel acknowledges the fact that people have equal capacities and no person is superior to another. He considered the motivational foundation of morality in a person to be beyond desire and envisioned a moral action for him. He considers living ethically as a necessary component of the meaningfulness of life, and he believes that in addition to not believing in the world after death, the meaningfulness of this life can be achieved in the framework of biological ethics.

Results showed that due to coexistence, humans can influence each other’s lives and make the life of this world meaningful through moral prepositions, even if they do not believe in the afterlife. If we target the component of ethics and bioethics from our daily relationships and interactions, the life of this world will become an anomic focus and meaning will emerge from our personal and social relationships.