"Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional."
— Ernest Hemingway
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millionsofmonads asked: Elaborate on what makes Kierkegård so cool? I've never understood the fascination.
Read Fear and Trembling.
stickyembraces asked: What's wrong with Kant? He is easily the most important philosopher of the modern era, and even if you think he is wrong, you got to admit that he is wrong in absolutely genius ways
I appreciate Kant’s significance to philosophy, without a doubt. I don’t dislike him because I think he is unimportant, but rather because his moral philosophy is grounded on a subject which does not exist — the perfectly rational man. One of my criticisms of philosophy in general is that we need to do away with these notions of the “ideal human subject” because they have no grounding in reality, in my opinion.
Camping until Wednesday! See you lovelies then.
anarchistoverman asked: That last one was a no brainer , Kant is overrated. How about Schopenhauer or Nietzsche.
Nietzsche. While both N and S have similar starting points, they go opposite directions. Nietzsche took great influence from Schopenhauer but ultimately believed that his turn to the ascetic ideal was committing precisely the same errors that Christianity falls prey to. And instead of embracing suffering as a part of the amor fati, overcoming that suffering through one’s own strengths, and ultimately becoming a better person in doing so, Schopenhauer decided it would be better to give in to suffering and deprive oneself of the joys in life because they cannot be separated from the pains. What seems to be an impossible obstacle for Schopenhauer was a peg in the ladder for Nietzsche.
tensionheadaches asked: I really enjoy your blog. So thanks for existing.
Thank YOU! :]
"A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity."
— Albert Camus - “An Absurd Reasoning,” The Myth of Sisyphus
"In a sense, and as in melodrama, killing yourself amounts to confessing. It is confessing that life is too much for you or that you do not understand it."
— Albert Camus - “An Absurd Reasoning,” The Myth of Sisyphus
Anonymous asked: Kierkegaard, yay or nay?
YAY!
"I have never seen anyone die for the ontological argument. Galileo, who held a scientific truth of great importance, abjured it with the greatest ease as soon as it endangered his life…On the other hand, I see many people die because they judge that life if not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions."
— Albert Camus - “An Absurd Reasoning,” The Myth of Sisyphus
Anonymous asked: What if we had no names or numbers to identify ourselves with?
This is a difficult question to answer, because if we had no names or numbers, that would mean that we also had no language or understanding of mathematics…so…yeah, what if? I couldn’t tell you, but it certainly wouldn’t be a world nearly as advanced as the one we live in today. We’d lose both good and bad.
millionsofmonads asked: Hume or Kant? :P If you answer incorrectly, we can never be friends!
Hume — anyone is a better pick than Kant.
