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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".
Nietzschean affirmation (German: Bejahung) is a concept that has been scholarly identified in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche.An example used to describe the concept is a fragment in Nietzsche's The Will to Power:
The phrase Reverence for Life is a translation of the German phrase: "Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben."These words came to Albert Schweitzer on a boat trip on the Ogooué River in French Equatorial Africa (now Gabon), while searching for a universal concept of ethics for our time.
There is a word in South Africa – Ubuntu – a word that captures Mandela's greatest gift: his recognition that we are all bound together in ways that are invisible to the eye; that there is a oneness to humanity; that we achieve ourselves by sharing ourselves with others, and caring for those around us.
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) viewed wisdom as a confrontation with the absurd condition of life and the freedom to create meaning in a world devoid of inherent purpose. [28] Albert Camus (1913–1960) echoed these ideas in The Myth of Sisyphus , arguing that wisdom lies in accepting life's absurdity and choosing to live meaningfully despite ...
Self-affirmation, the psychological process of re-affirming personal values to protect self-identity; Affirmations (New Age), the practice of positive thinking in New Age terminology; Affirmative prayer, a form of prayer that focuses on a positive outcome
Tofu has an interesting backstory in the world of health, with ties to food movements in the 1960s and questionable research around soy adding to its mythos. But the negative stigma from being a ...
The first English use of the expression "meaning of life" appears in Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus (1833–1834), book II chapter IX, "The Everlasting Yea". [1]Our Life is compassed round with Necessity; yet is the meaning of Life itself no other than Freedom, than Voluntary Force: thus have we a warfare; in the beginning, especially, a hard-fought battle.