Abstract
Chapter 12 develops a novel non-consequentialist theory that, it is argued, is major improvement on rivals from the previous chapters. According to this favoured principle, one's life is more meaningful, the more one contours intelligence or rational nature (in a way that does not violate certain moral constraints) toward fundamental objects, conditions of human life that are largely responsible for many of its other conditions. The chapter demonstrates how this ‘fundamentality theory’ plausibly accounts for the meaningfulness of the good (beneficence, morality), the true (knowledge, enquiry), and the beautiful (art, creativity), and not only avoids the objections to competing theories, but also incorporates their kernels of truth. For examples of the latter, the chapter explains how the appeal to depth accommodates the ideas that meaning in life could be enhanced by, but does not require: relating to God, exhibiting subjective attraction to one’s projects and improving others' lives.
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