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"An extremely tedious, depressing read.
I can honestly say that I read the first 150 pages, and then started skimming the rest (which I NEVER do, since I love reading) in search for dialogue.It is so melancholy and slow. It reminded me of being in a r" Read more of this review » |
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"Go Gentle is a fun read with a peculiar characteristic: the main character, Adora Hazzard, is a Stoic philosopher. Or, rather, is a woman with a PhD in philosophy who got into Stoicism and has a much easier time teaching it to others (especially kids"
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“In a 1946 lecture on the problem of free will, Jean-Paul Sartre issued his famous pronouncement that “man is condemned to be free.” But how can freedom be condemnation? Because, Sartre avows, man “did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at liberty, and from the moment that he is thrown into this world he is responsible for everything he does.”
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“The existentialists' view of love is not romantic, because they do not believe in love as an abstract force or amorous sunset walks along the beach. However, Cox also said, "if your idea of romance is somewhat more gothic and stormy, full of heartache, yearning and the thwarted desire to possess breaking up, making up and breaking up again, tears before bedtime and tears in the rain, then maybe it is romantic".”
― Existentialism and Romantic Love
― Existentialism and Romantic Love
“Peter Koestenbaum also elaborated on the importance of others, particularly romantic lovers, in the existential context. Love is the choice to create and reflect each other mutually, verifying and illuminating each other's uniqueness because this is how we learn that we exist and who we are. A key theme of authentic love is resistance between, but welcoming of, two independent consciousness acting like positive and negative magnets within a single magnetic field.”
― Existentialism and Romantic Love
― Existentialism and Romantic Love
“According to Bela Szabados, it can be dangerous to ignore philosophers' personalities because philosophizing is a personal interpretation of truth.”
― Existentialism and Romantic Love
― Existentialism and Romantic Love
“Her experience had been of a kind to teach her, rightly or wrongly, that the doubtful honor of a brief transit through a sorry world hardly called for effusiveness, even when the path was suddenly irradiated at some half-way point by daybeams rich as hers. But her strong sense that neither she nor any human being deserved less than was given, did not blind her to the fact that there were others receiving less who had deserved much more. And in being forced to class herself among the fortunate she did not cease to wonder at the persistence of the unforeseen, when the one to whom such unbroken tranquility had been accorded in the adult stage was she whose youth had seemed to teach that happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.”
― The Mayor of Casterbridge
― The Mayor of Casterbridge
“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
― The Fall
― The Fall
Exploring Existentialism
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Did your karma just run over your dogma? We can help. A place to come for existentialist answers. Also offering dada, absurdism, surrealism, nihilism, ...more
Existentialism
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Existentialism is a philosophical movement that claims that individual human beings have full responsibility for creating the meanings of their own li ...more
Philosophy
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What is Philosophy? Why is it important? How do you use it? This group looks at these questions and others: ethics, government, economics, skepticism, ...more