A seeming move to meaning

In the seminar on the philosophy of religion, i discovered that there is an apparent move to a search for meaning. For example, The pragmatic school of philosophy asked the question - what is the use of abstract thinking if it has no use in "praxis" (action). In a way they too were concerned with the duality of Thought and Action. The existential school of Philosophy is concerned with finding meaning in the living condition of the present existence. With Sartre Whose slogan ring in my ears - "existence precedes essence", i began to question the lived human experience. To be is to exist, i.e. God Became a Man one like us. He-being-with us. So The existentialist seek meaning.

The Personalists on the other hand centre reality around the person. what it means to be a person, what makes a real person with the other components of this making being - others around you, your ways of perceiving reality, etc.

The break away with the metaphysics, the new era of science and technology, etc. seem to move desperately towards meaning.

Viktor Frankl , known as the prophet of meaning, has this to say from Nietzsche - if you have a why to live for, you have meaning. We all seek for meaning - through our language which consists of symbols and metaphors and construct our own convictions. For example, if i say "father" i associate this word with the picture in my mind of my father. So seeing is believing as Jesus said. We come to be as we see. So finding meaning is nothing but our inexhaustible search for the 'divine'.