Richard Taylor (1919-2003) was an American philosopher who taught at major universities and wrote several influential books, including Metaphysics (1963), Good and Evil (1970), and Virtue Ethics (1991). In this essay, he rejects the notion that meaning in life is assigned to us from a source outside us. "The meaning of life," he says, "is from within us, it is not bestowed from without, and it far exceeds in both its beauty and permanence any heaven of which men have ever dreamed or yearned for."
-A perfect image of meaninglessness is found in the myth of Sisyphus.

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Richard Taylor indeed argued that the meaning of life comes from within, not from external sources, and he used the myth of Sisyphus as an illustration of meaninglessness in his philosophical discussions.

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