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Man’s Search for Meaning

“Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.”

The book is the source of a pretty famous quote for existentialists. Frankl delivers his accounts of living within concentration camps and his theory to capture the cruelness yet hopeful conditions. He posits that suffering is universal, but the ways in which people will cope with that truth and persevere is fundamentally what Frankl wants to give us. Frankl’s logotherapy then, is a specific method to humanism, where it’s goal is to uplift human spirituality. From Frankl, there are also many of thinkers who have followde the spiritual humanism and wrote their philosophies in such a way to value the human. Nietzsche’s “will to power”, Bergson’s “vitality”, Husserl’s “Lebenswelt”, Laozi’s “Tao”, and so on from all conceptions have enumerated the human potential.