Il senso della vita, senza Dio ma con gli altri

Following and discussing the lines of Eugenio Lecaldano’s recent volume Il senso della vita (Bologna, Il Mulino, 2016), this paper examines the possibility of giving an account of a personal search for the meaning of one’s own life in a naturalist and secular perspective. In this light, the role of emotions, moral sentiments and relationships both in stabilizing one’s own sense of oneself and in the personal quest for the meaning of life are discussed