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Plato & Aristotle - Define Essence |
A certain set of core properties that are necessary, or essential for a thing to be what it is. |
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Plato & Aristotle - Define Essential Property |
The identifying feature that makes a thing a certain thing. |
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Plato & Aristotle - Define Essentialism (quote) |
"Part of what it means to be a good person is to adhere to your essence." |
"Part of what it means to be a good..." |
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Freidrich Nietzsche - Define Nihilism |
The belief in the meaningless of life. (Slightly intrigued... Look into this line of thought more?) |
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Jean-Paul Sartre - Existentialism, Views on Freedom (quote) |
We face an abundance of freedom. "If there is no guidance for our actions, then each of us is forced to design our own moral code, to invent a morality to live by. ... [We are] Condemned to be free." |
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Jean-Paul Sartre - Existentialism, Fake Authorities (quote) |
"You might think that there's some authority you could look to for answers, but all of the authorities you can think of are fake. Those authorities are really just people just like you - people who don't have any answers, people who had to figure out for themselves how to live." |
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Jean-Paul Sartre - Existentialism, 'Bad Faith' definition |
"A refusal to accept the absurd" - When a person decides to give up on deciding their own beliefs and lean on the beliefs to another's authority |
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Jean-Paul Sartre - Story - A Student Trying To Make The Best Choice |
A student of Sartre's wanted to go to war and serve his country, yet also was the only caregiver for his elderly mother. If he went to war, he would have a likely small part in helping millions of people. If he stayed home, he would have an enormous role in just one person's life. So his choice, no matter what it was, was the only true choice, so long as he made it Authentically. |
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Existentialism - Define Absurdity |
The search for answers in an answerless world. |
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Existentialism, Define |
Existence precedes essence. An existentialist refutes the notion that God made the Universe, or our world, or us, with any particular purpose in mind. |
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Albert Camus - Meaning of Life Quote |
"The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself." |
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Hank Green - Existentialism Quote 1 |
"If the world is devoid of purpose, you can imbue it with whatever purpose you want." |
"If the world is devoid of..." |
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Hank Green - Existentialism Quote 2 |
"If the world is going to have any of the things most of us value - like justice and order - we're going to have to put it there ourselves. Because, elsewise, those things wouldn't exist." |
"If the world is going to have any purpose..." |
