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My old Polymate Jennifer asks,
“Write about what you feel is the one most important thing in life.”
My answer, “Truth” will be expected by many, probably, but the far more interesting question remains: “Why?”
Ever since I have been very young, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘existentialism’
Question #3: What is the Most Important Thing In Life?
Posted in Autobiographical, Philosophy in General, tagged David Hume, epistomology, existentialism, God, Jann, Josh, Karl Jaspers, Kierkegaard, life, love, Nietzsche, Socrates, Truth on 10 December, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Adventures in Existentialism
Posted in Autobiographical, Existentialism and Authenticity, tagged Abyss, Ashley, bookstore, dictionaries, existentialism, Jared, meaning of life, Nietzsche, RCC, Riverside Community College, Satre on 29 October, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It was a warm Tuesday afternoon that found Ashely and I walking lazily along the hard concrete of RCC towards the bookstore with vague notions of buying dictionaries. Conversation wandered off in that free-floating way that comes after the more concentrated thoughts of the last class, and it was with such a wispy mood that [...]
In the Footsteps of…Everyone
Posted in Autobiographical, Existentialism and Authenticity, tagged alcohol, Authenticity, destiny, existentialism, genius, knowledge, language, learning, responsibility, Truth, truth is a snare on 10 October, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It is said that Life is confusing, but doesn’t that just make you appreciate those moments of clarity all the more? You know those moments: the ones that sweep away the noise of confusion and, even for all of a few minutes, give you a sense of direction?
But then comes those weird moments, those moments [...]
Bits of Wisdom, 1
Posted in Existentialism and Authenticity, tagged existentialism, faces, Karl Jaspers, life, man, meaning, meaning of life, question, serious on 25 August, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The question of the value and meaning of existence is unlike any other question: man does not seem to become really serious until he faces it.
Karl Jaspers
Truth is Subjectivity: Existential Epistomology
Posted in Existentialism and Authenticity, Philosophy in General, tagged a priori, Descartes, epistomology, evangalism, evangelize, evangelizing, existentialism, Hume, Kant, Kierkegaard, objective, objectivity, subjective, subjectivity, Truth on 11 March, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I have had people get very confused listening to me discuss – with ardent passion – the absolute nature of reason, and then lapse quietly into existential pathos about the subjectivity of meaning.
And rightly so.
Epistemology is something that has a special meaning for me, as the problem of knowledge is precisely the thing that got [...]
And So Forth…
Posted in Autobiographical, Existentialism and Authenticity, tagged Kierkegaard, Sartre, existentialism, Existential, Existential crisis, Camus, absurd, absurdity, Earnest Becker, Denial of Death, Otto Rank, Jordan, Caitlin, Zac on 7 January, 2008 | 1 Comment »
All is in vain.
I realize that I set this up to be a more or less “serious” blog with entries to be carefully crafted articles or essays, but consistency by damned!
All is in vain.
Existential metaphysics is terrible. Absurdity is absurd. It is all so beautifully terrible. It PAINS.
And no one who has not felt [...]
Atheism or Morality: What’ll it Be?
Posted in Ethics, God and Theology, Philosophy in General, tagged atheist, athiesm, being atheist, existentialism, France, God, Jean-Paul Sartre, Sartre, The Humanism of Existentialism on 23 December, 2007 | 10 Comments »
People talk about rights all the time; about good and evil, about right and wrong, about what one “ought” to do. Whatever society, whatever culture, wherever you go, everyone alway has something to say on the matter. The problem with this is that many of these people are atheist. But, of course, to them, [...]
A Poll for this Monday
Posted in Autobiographical, tagged Philosophy, blogging, Christianity, Religion, existentialism, blog, theology, meaning of life, poll, readership, politics, commentary, personal, academic on 14 September, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So the internet is back. Or rather, the internet here in the dorms is no longer at that deceptively slow speed which tempts and promises a loading time of less than twenty minutes but which, like the foul siren it is, fails to deliver the advertised reward.
That said, forgive the skipped week, but today I [...]
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