Tag Archives: Nietzsche
Absurdity and the Meaning of Life
French author and 1957 Nobel laureate Albert Camus once wrote: Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. When I read this the first time many, many years … Continue reading
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Tagged absurdity of life, Albert Camus, meaning, meaninles, Nietzsche, Viktor Frankl
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The Subject Defines the Object
“Nothing is an object unless there is a subject to consider it.” While not questioning the existence of objects when not directly considered, in “The World as Idea”, Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) says that we only know the world in relation … Continue reading
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Tagged Descartes, ding an sich, distiction between subject and object, Kant, Nietzsche, Perception, sensory organs, stream of consciousness
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Only the Day after Tomorrow Belongs to Me.
” … Some are born posthumously.” This is Nietzsche’s way of saying that he has looked beyond the current wretched condition of humanity and is anticipating the arrival of an enlightened being who represents a new and superior iteration of … Continue reading
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Tagged evolution, human condition, human race, Nietzsche, self-destructive, Übermensch
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