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If human life has no set purpose, does it follow that human life has no meaning? “I can define ‘meaning of life’ as a feeling that human beings generally have when they achieve a sufficient number of objectives that they have set themselves, or when they can bring about the realisation of values they recognise” (Rudolf Wohlgennant, p34 life and meaning) If one were to address this question to people in the form of a street survey, this question may boil down to pure semantics, as there may be no immediate distinction between purpose and meaning for those not engaged in philosophy. Wohlgennant is clear that humans create their own meaning based on purposes that are self given or learned over time. This viewpoint is fraught with difficulty though, as it reduces meaning and purpose to nothing more than individual creation, leaving no room for religion or a greater reason behind life. Though Wohlgennant may make little significant distinction between the two, it is helpful at this stage to draw out both the relationship and the differences in the title. I would argue that the major difference between meaning and purpose is a matter of depth. This can be identified in a simple analogy. A car has a very definite purpose,