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Abstract. The article considers the question about the methodological bases of life meaning problem. Before analyzing life meaning as a theoretical problem of ethics and formulating normative requirements and imperatives it is necessary to research the question about the initial methodological principles of its statement and solution. Life meaning can't be reduced to any formulae and is not reached watching the reaction of authorities: it is dramatically mastered by every person as a practical existential problem.

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