Over many centuries the thoughts and ideas of the western world have changed. Western Civilization is described as the norms, ethnics, culture and beliefs that have some origin of Europe. The Western World has a tendency to want to know what the meaning to life is, but more importantly what the meaning of one’s existence is. Most people need this comfort. To know they belong somewhere and they are not just wondering the earth with only death as their final destination. In this comfort one can find themselves, which goes in hand with someone’s meaning of existing. At the University of Jena, a biologist by the name of Ernst Haeckel published the book “the Riddle of the Universe at the Close of the 19th Century”. Ernst assumed that the human
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This book talked about giving drugs to healthy people in order for them to find the truth that is inside their heads. He describes a drug called soma. His hope was to find a meaning for life where the area of non-reason lies. The next era of life in non-reason was the experience of the religions of Hinduism and Buddhism. The religions provide a non-rational meaning of life and values. Some started this thinking in Eastern culture, but when it came to the west a storm hit. The religions grew in popularity because of Huxley’s emphasis of drugs. For both, the religions and the drugs showed people the area of non-reason that could find hope in meanings of life and values. Those who tried both the drug trips and the religious trip tried to find truth inside one’s head, but negated reason. In this same period people also tried to find truth with a certain type of music instead of drugs. The Beatles participated with this with “Revolver” and “Strawberry fields forever”. Heidegger in his later years published a book called “What is Philosophy?”. In the book he states that there is a being (human kind) who can speak and can hope for meaning. Also, he told his readings to “Listen to the
This book talked about giving drugs to healthy people in order for them to find the truth that is inside their heads. He describes a drug called soma. His hope was to find a meaning for life where the area of non-reason lies. The next era of life in non-reason was the experience of the religions of Hinduism and Buddhism. The religions provide a non-rational meaning of life and values. Some started this thinking in Eastern culture, but when it came to the west a storm hit. The religions grew in popularity because of Huxley’s emphasis of drugs. For both, the religions and the drugs showed people the area of non-reason that could find hope in meanings of life and values. Those who tried both the drug trips and the religious trip tried to find truth inside one’s head, but negated reason. In this same period people also tried to find truth with a certain type of music instead of drugs. The Beatles participated with this with “Revolver” and “Strawberry fields forever”. Heidegger in his later years published a book called “What is Philosophy?”. In the book he states that there is a being (human kind) who can speak and can hope for meaning. Also, he told his readings to “Listen to the