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- Dictionarypurposeless/ˈpəːpəsləs/
adjective
- 1. done or made with no discernible point or purpose: "purposeless vandalism"
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2 days ago · Asking good questions helps us better understand our aspirations, goals, and values. Having worked with leaders of all ages and career stages, I can attest to the fact that discussion about their struggles to define their own sense of purpose (sometimes they talk about finding a “North Star”) emerges as a common topic for exploration.
5 days ago · An assortment of different buckets of paint; "formalism" refers to an aesthetic philosophy that deals with the purpose or ideal function of artworks. An assortment of paintbrushes; Kant believes that natural objects are lovely to aesthetic perception when they are seen as having a purposeless purposiveness. Assorted colours on paintbrushes; the ...
3 days ago · The feeling of loneliness is hard to describe, but a lonely person often feels disconnected, unloved or purposeless. One blogger described his feelings this way: “I was starving for attention. I was hungry for connection.” King David wrote: “Look and see, there is no one at my right hand; no one is concerned for me.
3 days ago · Abstract. The ‘popular’ has often been—and continues to be—affected by the definition of ‘art’ as art that is ‘autonomous’ and ‘free’ (in the sense of not serving a purpose, i.e., being non-functional), a definition that would place the ‘popular’ on the non-art side. In some cases, the artifacts of ‘popular culture ...
2 days ago · Nolan titled the exhibition “Radical Artists from the 1960s/1970s: Between Gesture and Geometry” to highlight this interplay. A compelling tension between human gesture and constructed space ...
3 days ago · McCulloch challenged the notion that machines would be purposeless without humans. He believed that if designed appropriately, machines could possess purpose intrinsic to their operation, independent of human existence. This raises philosophical questions about the nature of purpose and whether it can be embedded into artificial entities.
2 days ago · Appearance. For other uses, see Ethics (disambiguation). Ethics is the philosophical study of moral phenomena. Also called moral philosophy, it investigates normative questions about what people ought to do or which behavior is morally right. Its main branches include normative ethics, applied ethics, and metaethics.
