tough but honest hits the bull's eye i'd say.. just browsed a bit and found the Kierkegaard idea that.. the individual has the sole responsibility for giving one's own life meaning and with living life passionately and sincerely, in spite of many obstacles and distractions including despair, angst, absurdity, choice, boredom, and death... see and you fit it into 17 syllables..
You might have guessed that my philosophical preferences are with Existentialism. The emphasis on doing that you present here is foremost in a philosopher like Kierkegaard, whose thinking I find most amenable. We are never finished beings, always becoming. So doing is what we are until death. This philosophy also stresses that there is no original me to start with. No paradigm to follow. Taking responsibility for who we are, the doing, is key.
tough but honest hits the bull's eye i'd say..
ReplyDeletejust browsed a bit and found the Kierkegaard idea that..
the individual has the sole responsibility for giving one's own life meaning and with living life passionately and sincerely, in spite of many obstacles and distractions including despair, angst, absurdity, choice, boredom, and death... see and you fit it into 17 syllables..
Yep,senryu fits it into a nutshell. Thanks Claudia.
ReplyDeleteSuperb. My initial reaction was : Yes!
ReplyDeleteah but its so much easier to blame others, absolving us of responsibility and having to actually do something about our life....
ReplyDeleteYou might have guessed that my philosophical preferences are with Existentialism. The emphasis on doing that you present here is foremost in a philosopher like Kierkegaard, whose thinking I find most amenable. We are never finished beings, always becoming. So doing is what we are until death. This philosophy also stresses that there is no original me to start with. No paradigm to follow. Taking responsibility for who we are, the doing, is key.
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