Tag: Philosophy
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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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How Modern Life Fragments Our Identity
We live in an age of infinite possibilities. Millions of choices. Endless complexity. And yet here we are — struggling with depression, anxiety, identity crises. Trying to find our way without getting swallowed by the chaos. Compared to those living in war zones or suffering from famine, we’re lucky. And when we compare ourselves to…
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Navigating AI’s Impact on Society
From Creation to Exile: Humanity’s Complicated Dance with Artificial Intelligence We first created artificial intelligence—now, it seems, it’s time to demonize it and cast it out of our own Garden of Eden. Just this week(this is the translation of my original post from 2023), Elon Musk, along with several AI experts and tech leaders, signed…
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The Misconceptions of Modern World: Facts vs. Instincts
FACTFULNESS Are we really living in such terrible times? Is this an era where one shouldn’t bring children into the world? Has the world truly gone mad? Are we living in an age full of evil?Well — what do you think about the following questions? Swedish doctor Hans Rosling, after studying medicine and statistics at…
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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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