Yet there are some who believe that all this pessimism is not warranted. My own view is that a deep pessimism about the meaning of life is entirely appropriate, but that this should not be confused with total nihilism about meaning in life. More specifically, we should, as I argue in chapter 3, be nihilistic about an important kind of meaning in life, but, as I argue in the rest of this chapter, there are other kinds of meaning that are attainable with varying frequency and to varying degrees.
