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To: koan who wrote (135290)7/30/2013 10:30:25 PM
From: Bread Upon The Water  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 149317
 


Existentialism has many formal definitions and more informal ones. What is worse is that it is "both" subjective and sort of objective. I am giving my mental image, many others would give a different one.

So it is sort of something I claim, but that I cannot really explain or defend.


And that is precisely the reason, IMHO, that you should find another term for your approach as the one you are using will lead, I think, to a misunderstanding of what you are trying to say. It sounds like to me you are actually taking about a mind set in one that leads to "self-actualization" --as one term, but not the only one, I would finger as being a more accurate description of your process.



To: koan who wrote (135290)8/2/2013 5:18:59 PM
From: one_less  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 149317
 
Existentialism has many formal definitions and more informal ones.
Ok but answer one or two... make it four questions for me.

Why is there something rather than nothing? Since we have to accept the existence of something, ok well everything, why do people universally agonize over the experience of love and consciousness? Does love or consciousness exist I mean in the empirical sense?

And … oh yeah, does math exist?

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