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Existential nihilism is the philosophical theory that life has no objective meaning or purpose. [1] The inherent meaninglessness of life is largely explored in the philosophical school of existentialism, where one can potentially create their own subjective "meaning" or "purpose".
You Must Change Your Life (German: Du mußt dein Leben ändern. Über Anthropotechnik ) is a 2009 book by the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk about the history and philosophy of practice across the planet as well as the development of anthropotechnics .
Bloch's reference to the life of a dog may have been picked up by The Doors in a verse of their 1971 song "Riders on the Storm": "Into this world we're thrown / Like a dog without a bone." In 2009, Simon Critchley dedicated his column on The Guardian to Heidegger's concept of thrownness and explained it using the aforementioned verse of The ...
The rejection of reason as the source of meaning is a common theme of existentialist thought, as is the focus on the anxiety and dread that we feel in the face of our own radical free will and our awareness of death. Kierkegaard advocated rationality as a means to interact with the objective world (e.g., in the natural sciences), but when it ...
For nothing stands alone, either in ourselves or in things; and if our soul did but once vibrate and resound with a chord of happiness, then all of eternity was necessary to bring forth this one occurrence—and in this single moment when we said yes, all of eternity was embraced, redeemed, justified and affirmed.
The three of us affectionately call ourselves “20-40-60,” an homage to our respective ages — 23, 45 and 60. ... brainstorm and discuss. Even the shameful bits I didn’t want the world to ...
Humanistic psychology in general and self-actualisation in particular helped change our view of human nature from a negative point of view – man is a conditioned or tension reducing organism – to a more positive view in which man is motivated to realize his full potential. This is reflected in Maslow's hierarchy of needs and in his theory ...
The powerful Scorpio Sun boosts our confidence, and excitable Uranus is retrograde in Taurus, keeping us on track as we change our lives. The world is our celestial oyster — use it to your ...