Viktor Frankl: Our need for Meaning and Purpose

God let this amazing man survive all that he did so he could contribute to mankind in an enormous ways. Pure Genius in his craft and also a warmness you feel from his heart. Beautiful human being. If only people would want to learn more from such as Viktor Frankl, society would be fulfilled with so much more loving, kinder and empathic humans (towards one another and themselves).

Great man and great contribution to humanity ....

We suffer more due to lack of meaning rather than a situation by itself,Once we have to find out what life wants from us rather than what we wants from life and once we knows it,it becomes the same what we and life wants us to do.

Why his teachings are not part of every high school and college curriculum is shocking and disappointing.

Great man, survivor and a great contributor to mankind. 🙏🏻❤👏🏻

I didn't know that he had developed logotherapy before the concentration camps. Thankfully he did and maybe survived them as a result. The fact that he lived through such an experience is testament to it's effectiveness and the effectiveness of choosing to see a meaningful light at the end of the tunnel.

If every young person read Man's Search for Meaning maybe there would be no concentration camps. With all this anger and hate in our world again this book is needed today more than ever perhaps.

Talk about “meaning”. This gentleman took the most horrific of experiences and turned it into the most valuable life lesson for generations past present and future…modern day content creators promote this very principle

Great man. I have ambitions to visit his grave one day.

This is a inspiration for humanity ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

The meaning of life is what ever you are doing to distract you from killing yourself~Albert Camus

Thank You . . .

A beautiful interview.

Great thoughts

Exactly!❤

great points

People are neurotic, unhappy, unfulfilled, and totally demoralised because the available meanings that are promoted culturally do not align with the real, universal meaning of life.

Cathy Milton of WTAE TV Pittsburgh

The meaning of life is the meaning you give it and, as Camus said, “You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” This isn’t putting down what many may think he is saying, rather it highlights that he is saying individuals must develop personal meaning for their lives. As far as finding common meaning for societies, that is a double edged sword. Camus again, “… a good reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.” Nowadays you have the modern Republican Party in America demonstrating this, yet I don’t accept their meaning at all. So my meaning is to oppose them. It’s not like this gets us to a great place. His talk was given when people believed in the grand march of liberalism and progress. To me, those days are gone. We need a clear eyed and realistic view of how to manage ourselves on this planet in a sustainable fashion while practicing true tolerance. We are no where near that.

This was certainly not broadcast on the BBC!