The question of meaning goes all the way down: if human life as a whole is meaningless, so is everything that occurs or belongs within it. Since that's not a thought it is easy to live with, there is good reason to search for life's meaning.
To recognize that you are radically free, in Sartre's sense, but then to live as if you weren't, is to live in bad faith, in denial of what you know … - David E. Cooper
To recognize that you are radically free, in Sartre's sense, but then to live as if you weren't, is to live in bad faith, in denial of what you know …
- David E. Cooper
I was keen to dispel a familiar misunderstanding: that existentialists somehow relish the alienation of human beings from the world. This may have be… - David E. Cooper
I was keen to dispel a familiar misunderstanding: that existentialists somehow relish the alienation of human beings from the world. This may have be…
Like Nietzsche's own writings on education, most of mine were relatively youthful ones. Both were inspired by a critical animus against prevailing tr… - David E. Cooper
Like Nietzsche's own writings on education, most of mine were relatively youthful ones. Both were inspired by a critical animus against prevailing tr…
How people make gardens is bound to reflect a way of experiencing the natural world, while at the same time this experience of nature is bound to ref… - David E. Cooper
How people make gardens is bound to reflect a way of experiencing the natural world, while at the same time this experience of nature is bound to ref…
Certainly each side - the 'absolutists' and the 'constructivists' or 'humanists', as I've labelled them - accuses the other of hubris, and lays claim… - David E. Cooper
Certainly each side - the 'absolutists' and the 'constructivists' or 'humanists', as I've labelled them - accuses the other of hubris, and lays claim…
One thing that attracts me in Daoism and Heidegger is a delicate combination of recognizing deep differences between human being and any other kind o… - David E. Cooper
One thing that attracts me in Daoism and Heidegger is a delicate combination of recognizing deep differences between human being and any other kind o…
For me, the existentialists are important critics of 'absolutist' claims, and Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty are, at least in their later writings, also… - David E. Cooper
For me, the existentialists are important critics of 'absolutist' claims, and Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty are, at least in their later writings, also…
What impressed me about Plato and Sartre was their conviction that we should live our lives in the light of big truths about reality and human existe… - David E. Cooper
What impressed me about Plato and Sartre was their conviction that we should live our lives in the light of big truths about reality and human existe…
As for the meaning of gardens, particular gardens may have, of course, all sorts of different meanings - emotive, historical, emblematic, religious, … - David E. Cooper
As for the meaning of gardens, particular gardens may have, of course, all sorts of different meanings - emotive, historical, emblematic, religious, …
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