Richard Taylor (1919-2003) Was an American Philosopher Who Taught at Major

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."
-Taylor says that the strange meaningfulness that our lives possess is that of the inner compulsion to be doing just what we were put here to do.