32 ideas
9247 | Life will be lived better if it has no meaning [Camus] |
7973 | There is no longer anything on which there is nothing to say [Baudrillard] |
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] |
6841 | Some continental philosophers are relativists - Baudrillard, for example [Baudrillard, by Critchley] |
7975 | The task of philosophy is to unmask the illusion of objective reality [Baudrillard] |
7986 | Drunken boat pilots are less likely to collide than clearly focused ones [Baudrillard] |
7982 | Instead of thesis and antithesis leading to synthesis, they now cancel out, and the conflict is levelled [Baudrillard] |
9244 | Logic is easy, but what about logic to the point of death? [Camus] |
20660 | At one level maths and nature are very similar, suggesting some deeper origin [Wolfram] |
7974 | Without God we faced reality: what do we face without reality? [Baudrillard] |
7987 | Nothing is true, but everything is exact [Baudrillard] |
9249 | Whether we are free is uninteresting; we can only experience our freedom [Camus] |
7978 | There is no need to involve the idea of free will to make choices about one's life [Baudrillard] |
9253 | The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it [Camus] |
7980 | In modern times, being useless is the essential aesthetic ingredient for an object [Baudrillard] |
9250 | Discussing ethics is pointless; moral people behave badly, and integrity doesn't need rules [Camus] |
9252 | The more one loves the stronger the absurd grows [Camus] |
7983 | Good versus evil has been banefully reduced to happiness versus misfortune [Baudrillard] |
9251 | One can be virtuous through a whim [Camus] |
6708 | Happiness and the absurd go together, each leading to the other [Camus] |
9243 | If we believe existence is absurd, this should dictate our conduct [Camus] |
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] |
7981 | Whole populations are terrorist threats to authorities, who unite against them [Baudrillard] |
7976 | People like democracy because it means they can avoid power [Baudrillard] |
7977 | Only in the last 200 years have people demanded the democratic privilege of being individuals [Baudrillard] |
7979 | The arrival of the news media brought history to an end [Baudrillard] |
9248 | It is essential to die unreconciled and not of one's own free will [Camus] |
7984 | Suicide is ascribed to depression, with the originality of the act of will ignored [Baudrillard] |
20659 | Space and its contents seem to be one stuff - so space is the only existing thing [Wolfram] |
7985 | Pascal says secular life is acceptable, but more fun with the hypothesis of God [Baudrillard] |