Tag: Books
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How to Know Yourself-69: Existence and Meaning
Knowing Ourselves: Meaning, Existence, and Perspectives After completing about 90% of the journey of getting to know ourselves, we reach the themes of existence and selfhood. If you have truly reflected on yourself and made efforts to resolve the issues in your life, you will have reached not existential despair, but existential confidence. Instead of…
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Sartre’s Perspective: Freedom and the Strangeness of Existence
“People think in the past, judge in the past, compare in the past. The fact that an action was done in the past matters more than whether it was a mistake.” Jean-Paul Sartre — writer, philosopher, political journalist — is one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century.Short, cross-eyed, wearing large, attention-grabbing glasses,…
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The Illusion of Freedom on Twitter
Since my cousin went off to military service, he’s been repeating a phrase that struck me deeply:“Has your freedom ever been taken from you?” For some reason, I really loved this question.Actually, I had been thinking about it for a long time—since reading The Captivity of Will, maybe for 6 or 7 years now. Are…
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