SI
SI
discoversearch

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor.  We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community.  If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.
Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: koan who wrote (480300)9/30/2021 3:19:49 AM
From: cosmicforce  Respond to of 541210
 
I thought if provided a set of examples from the 19th, 20th and post-War eras, you might simply acknowledge that Existentialists are not about any quest for rationality but share a view that the subjective human experience collectively has a higher value than the banal search for rational knowledge ... and quite a number even sought God through the entire period of Existential evolution.

But a guy who spends his life doing the opposite - bringing rationality to politics, scientific inquiry and the human condition can be called "Existentialist". Now that is truly Absurd... lol.

Sigh... onto to the educated smart kids and women, both with rocketing IQs, that will save us just as our country embraces QAnon tropes of Blood Libel and fights over vaccines and horse wormers! Oy vey...

What
Would
Bertie
Do?



To: koan who wrote (480300)9/30/2021 3:35:47 PM
From: Sam  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 541210
 
The idea of existentialism is that the person defines reality based on their own experiences...

You clearly do that.

Russell clearly would disagree your characterization of him as an "existentialist" unless you mean by it, someone who "defines reality based on their own experiences". In that case, though, everyone is an existentialist. Because everyone does that.