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Why do we exist?
I have on several occasions, now-a-days often, thought about the purpose of our existence. It's frustrating. We are born and then proceed to die after some time performing actions that don't have any ...
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What is the meaning of sadness?
What does it mean to be sad?
It just occurred to me that this is the (pseudo?) existential question that is making me sad.
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Does Nietzsche say, and mean, that all life is unavoidably tragic?
Does Nietzsche say, and mean, that all life is unavoidably tragic?
All I know, right now, is that he had a book The Birth of Tragedy, about theater I think. And, I think, that all life is a struggle ...
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Has any philosopher written approvingly of "living each day like it was your last"?
Has any philosopher written approvingly of "living each day like it was your last"?
Or even, each thing you do (big or small) like it was the last thing you could?
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Is there a philosophy of responsibility in terms of complacency
I was wondering, and I'm especially interested in either contemporary philosophers or critical theorists, if there was a (I assume existentialist) philosophy of complacency.
Especially:
I am doing ...
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