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What is the purpose of life?
Humans are uniquely concerned with a ‘reason to live,’ so traditionally turned to religion. The MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY investigates whether science, and the science of Marxism, have offered new answers
A blackbird’s alarm call can be seen as an example of altruistic behaviour
Argentinians commemorated the 50th anniversary of the military dictatorship that left 30,000 people killed or ‘disappeared.’ BERT SCHOUWENBURG reports
In Voices of Scotland YANA PETTICREW looks at the crippling deterioration of working-class art provision and support
As weapons return to Suffolk and defence spending soars, London CND is pressing local candidates to oppose nuclear expansion and support the UN ban treaty. SALLY SPIERS explains
One hundred years on from Britain’s only general strike, socialists will gather in London at the Morning Star’s annual conference to discuss how organised labour can once again become the engine of radical change. Editor BEN CHACKO encourages readers to come along and join the debate
In the year following Peterloo a mass strike erupted into armed revolt as Scotland’s workers demanded their rights, yet this uprising remains largely absent from popular history, writes KENNY MacASKILL
FOR some, of course, the answer is simple — to fulfil God’s purpose.
That answer itself comes in a variety of different guises — from the obligation to honour God (as if an omnipotent being requires the obsequies of lesser beings that s/he created) to perhaps more virtuous or creditable purposes — living honestly, frugally and virtuously; doing unto others as you would be done by, and so on.
It is perhaps a feature of our species that, unlike other species, we “need” a purpose, individually or collectively, beyond mere existence.
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