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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.
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".
Project Itoh (伊藤 計劃, Itō Keikaku), real name Satoshi Itō (伊藤 聡, Itō Satoshi, October 14, 1974 – March 20, 2009), was a Japanese science fiction writer and essayist. History [ edit ]
"The Painter of Modern Life" (French: "Le Peintre de la vie moderne") is an essay written by French poet, essayist, and art critic Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867). It was composed sometime between November 1859 and February 1860, and was first published in three installments in the French morning newspaper Le Figaro in 1863: first on November 26, and then on the 28th, and finally on December ...
Characteristics that regularly recur in the work of Lebensphilosophie thinkers, although not in every writer, can be summarized as follows: [14] [15] Life is central: in contrast to empiricism and materialism on the one hand, which place matter central, or idealism and rationalism on the other, which place intellect central, the philosophy of life wants to explain the world from the ...
The biggest of these is the return of its pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, who controls a vast hoard of Bitcoins from the currency’s earliest days, and who could shock the market in ...
In Sartre's account, man is a creature haunted by a vision of "completion" (what Sartre calls the ens causa sui, meaning literally "a being that causes itself"), which many religions and philosophers identify as God. Born into the material reality of one's body, in a material universe, one finds oneself inserted into being.
Even if there is a dead man's switch that triggers instructions to sell Satoshi's fortune, Ginns says the market would be able to absorb the shock and would eventually rally as the currency became ...