27 ideas
9247 | Life will be lived better if it has no meaning [Camus] |
9307 | Modern Western culture suddenly appeared in Jena in the 1790s [Svendsen] |
6707 | Suicide - whether life is worth living - is the one serious philosophical problem [Camus] |
9245 | To an absurd mind reason is useless, and there is nothing beyond reason [Camus] |
9297 | You can't understand love in terms of 'if and only if...' [Svendsen] |
9244 | Logic is easy, but what about logic to the point of death? [Camus] |
9308 | If subjective and objective begin to merge, then so do primary and secondary qualities [Svendsen] |
9249 | Whether we are free is uninteresting; we can only experience our freedom [Camus] |
9253 | The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it [Camus] |
9309 | Emotions have intentional objects, while a mood is objectless [Svendsen] |
9250 | Discussing ethics is pointless; moral people behave badly, and integrity doesn't need rules [Camus] |
9304 | Death appears to be more frightening the less one has lived [Svendsen] |
9252 | The more one loves the stronger the absurd grows [Camus] |
9251 | One can be virtuous through a whim [Camus] |
9243 | If we believe existence is absurd, this should dictate our conduct [Camus] |
6708 | Happiness and the absurd go together, each leading to the other [Camus] |
9302 | We are bored because everything comes to us fully encoded, and we want personal meaning [Svendsen] |
9298 | We can be unaware that we are bored [Svendsen] |
9310 | The profoundest boredom is boredom with boredom [Svendsen] |
9301 | Boredom is so radical that suicide could not overcome it; only never having existed would do it [Svendsen] |
9242 | Essential problems either risk death, or intensify the passion of life [Camus] |
9246 | Danger and integrity are not in the leap of faith, but in remaining poised just before the leap [Camus] |
9311 | We have achieved a sort of utopia, and it is boring, so that is the end of utopias [Svendsen] |
22817 | Citizenship involves a group of mutually supporting rights, which create community and equality [Miller,D] |
9303 | The concept of 'alienation' seems no longer applicable [Svendsen] |
22816 | Socialists reject nationality as a false source of identity [Miller,D] |
9248 | It is essential to die unreconciled and not of one's own free will [Camus] |