Tag: existentialism
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Day 270 of 1000: Problems vs Mysteries
French playwright and philosopher Gabriel Marcel distinguished between problems and mysteries. The problem of war deaths, vs the mystery.
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Day 218 of 1000: The emptiness of success
Inspired by the Two of Wands, musings on goal setting, achievement, and dissatisfaction. With an appearance by Schopenhauer.
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Day 187 of 1000: Living life forwards
Unpacking Kierkegaard’s famous maxim, “Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”
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Day 173 of 1000: Inwardness on Thanksgiving day 2025
Starting from Kierkegaard’s idea of inwardness, reviewing Nietzsche and Jung with similar ideas, and then onto my matriarchal role.
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Day 147 of 1000: Murdoch and the reckful vs reckless distinction
Free writing about Iris Murdoch’s philosophy of the good alongside my concept of reckfull vs reckless living.
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Day 143 of 1000: Charles Taylor on authenticity
An exploration of Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor’s The Ethics of Authenticity. How he seeks to rescue a moral ideal of authenticity.
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Day 141 of 1000: Woman as subject not object
A neighborly dispute about trash leads me to an exploration of de Beauvoir’s work and the prisoner’s dilemma.
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Day 139 of 1000: Skiing the slopes of existentialism
I’m undertaking a 1000-day reinvention project, blogging here daily to track my progress. In Thursday Thinker, I share a smart idea or theory. Earlier this week I was thinking about the self-help authors I’ve enjoyed in the past, because I wanted to do some copywork to help me figure out how to write advice that is approachable…
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DAy 125 of 1000: Sartre vs Sapolsky, with some Hegel too
Two perspectives on freedom, from an existentialist and a neurobiologist, and what Hegel said about consciousness.
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Day 111 of 1000: Existentialism, bad faith, and love
Choosing a societally-approved partner vs one you authentically want is “bad faith” in existentialist vernacular. What does authentic love look like?
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Day 91 of 1000: When people don’t understand your art
Why choose to make art that people don’t understand, when it leaves you open to criticism and rejection? Because the alternative is worse.