我们为何珍视生命的意义感？对进化论解释的批判

Evolutionary psychologists often describe the feeling of meaning in life as a fundamental human need and essential to human functioning. Adaptationist accounts typically suggest that the feeling of meaning in life evolved to enable or motivate a specific fitness-enhancing behavior, with most accounts clustering around four broad categories: associative learning, prosocial behavior toward nonclose kin, goal-directed behavior, and coping with death anxiety. Such accounts assume that people would perform these behaviors less effectively without the feeling of meaning in life and the desire to exp