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Essay / Existential theory of logotherapy in the search for man...
He notes two cases of men who contemplated suicide and who, once they were able to find meaning in their life and their future, were able to find the will. live. For one man it was his child waiting for him in a foreign land, for the other it was the completion of his life's work (79). Clearly, discovering meaning in their lives helped them survive the suffering they faced. Frankl believes that there is “an inherent and latent potential meaning in all the situations one confronts throughout one’s life” (143). Frankl finds meaning even in terrible suffering. Although he in no way claims that suffering is a necessary means to finding meaning, he recognizes that the way a man responds to suffering allows him to "add deeper meaning to his life" (67). . Does this man maintain his morality? Is he compromised by the atrocities surrounding him? Perhaps even the desire to maintain one's morality and prove one's inner strength and humanity can be seen as a meaning to