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I see there's a thread on this in Baha'i but I thought I'd set one up here in the phil dept.

So folk can kick it around...recommend stuff...whatever...

I'm a blank canvas on which to write!

s.
 
Snoopy said:
I see there's a thread on this in Baha'i but I thought I'd set one up here in the phil dept.

So folk can kick it around...recommend stuff...whatever...

I'm a blank canvas on which to write!

s.
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what is it ?
 
I am a bit of one. I believe that there is no higher purpose to life outside of living, breeding and dying. Thats it.
































































I really mean it...thats it...























































Really!!
 
Tao_Equus said:
I am a bit of one. I believe that there is no higher purpose to life outside of living, breeding and dying. Thats it.










I really mean it...thats it...























































Really!!
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Hmmm...not much of a thread then. :mad:

s.

PS I've named my beard "Taliban" after you :p
 
Tao_Equus said:
I am a bit of one. I believe that there is no higher purpose to life outside of living, breeding and dying. Thats it.
































































I really mean it...thats it...























































Really!!
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thats really sad Tao :eek:
































but somehow I dont believe you ;)
 
Snoopy said:
PS I've named my beard "Taliban" after you :p
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Is that because its almost an anagram of banality? (Yeh I know what I say verges on the racist but I trust you and others to know that I am not. When Thysen and his American Republican backers created Nazism people just accepted it. When the same American dynasty worked with Saudis to create modern Wahhabism we face the same dangers. Facism/totalatarian ideals sow seeds. I want to see them taken out as soon as they show their first leaves.)
 
Existentialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Existentialism is a term that has been applied to the work of a number of nineteenth and twentieth century philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences,[1][2] took the human subject — not merely the thinking subject, but the acting, feeling, living human individual[3][4] and his or her conditions of existence — as a starting point for philosophical thought. Existential philosophy is the "explicit conceptual manifestation of an existential attitude"[5] that begins with a sense of disorientation and confusion in the face of an apparently meaningless or absurd world.[6][7] Many existentialists have also regarded traditional systematic or academic philosophy, in both style and content, as too abstract and remote from concrete human experience.[8][9]
 
Tao_Equus said:
I am a bit of one. I believe that there is no higher purpose to life outside of living, breeding and dying. Thats it.
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I'm totally with you there, Tao.

Our only purpose is to exist. Every other purpose is self-imposed and the reason most people are in such fretful states, running around, desperately trying to satisfy purposes that don't exist.

What they don't seem to realize is that life itself is beautiful, perfectly satisfying and complete without any purpose other than just being.
 
If existentialist thinkers are pretty disparate, what is/are the key idea/s that fall under this umbrella heading?

s.
 
OK basically existentialism fundementally means that we all have a certain amount of freedom to direct our own lives. Why choose one action over the other?

There is an inifinite amount of consequences each action can give and divert you to.

Many existensialists questions where this free will comes from, some say its connected to God (Thiestism) who say we need to be alligned with a greater design plan to our own, others are Athiestic (Nihilism) who usually say there is no other meaning to living other then breathing, excreting and reproducing and others Agnostic (Absurdism).
 
OK so let's look at some of the guilty parties. Feel free to add some notes under the following:

Kierkegaard


Jaspers


Heidegger


Sartre


Nietzsche


De Beauvoir


Camus


Tillich…


s.
 
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