What makes life worth living, and how does one live a good life?
Typcially when we think of meaning we think of value. We can't help but be concerned with what makes life worth living and desire to tap into that on an ongoing basis such that we might live good lives. The question of what constitues a good life is a question of value, but any question of value is complex. What do we desire? What motivates us? Desires and motivations indicate what we already value—or, that which is valued. What are we trying to achieve? What are our aims and goals? Ambitions, goals, aims, and the like are futurally-oriented. That which helps us achieve our aims we call valuable. What is already valued is sometimes in conflict with what is valuable going forward, so it's important to see this distinction. When a conflict exists—and there inevitably always is some such conflict—our actions must attempt to reconcile what's valued with what's valuable. These actions are evaluative in real time—ongoing valuing. So, the question of value really involves three types of questions: those regarding what's valuable, those regarding how we're valuing what's placed before us, and those regarding what's already valued.
Moreover, we might ask how these questions apply to oneself (I), communities (we), and the type of value as such (as it is in itself). Given these considerations, we can identify nine types of sub-questions within the broader question of value:
