"It's hard to stab people, sometimes you hit a bone and your hand aches"
- some serial killer in (Mindhunter)
- some serial killer in (Mindhunter)
Forwarded from Medical café
استشهاد صفاء السراي قبل قليل احد خريجي #التكنولوجية في #التحرير باصابته في الراس
الرحمة والخلود لروحه الطاهرة 💔
الفاتحة 🖤
الرحمة والخلود لروحه الطاهرة 💔
الفاتحة 🖤
Forwarded from برنامج رحلتي في الجامعة
استشهاد صفاء السراي قبل قليل احد خريجي التكنولوجية في ساحة التحرير بأصابته في الرأس
لا تنسوا قراءة سورة الفاتحة على أرواح شهدائنا الأبرار
لا تنسوا قراءة سورة الفاتحة على أرواح شهدائنا الأبرار
Forwarded from Aesthetics
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”
— Jean Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
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In this post we’ll discuss existentialism. Plato and Aristotle were essentialists, believing that everything has an essence. It is this essence, for example, that causes us to recognise all tables as tables despite the fact that all tables are different. We too have essences argue essentialists, and our meaning is to be found in living according to some essential nature. In the late nineteenth century, Nietzsche challenged essentialism through nihilism, the belief that life has no meaning, in other words it is essence-less.
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This was the context into which Sartre arrived. Whilst essentialists argued that we are born with a set purpose, and nihilists said life has no predefined purpose, Sartre queried: what if we are born without a purpose, and then it is up to us to find our own meaning? This is the core belief of existentialism, that existence, the only thing we can really be sure of, precedes essence. We are born into a world which lacks purpose, a state existentialists call ‘absurdity’. Absurdity is a technical term which defines our search for answers in an answerless world. The world just exists, that’s it.
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Strangely for Sartre, the scariest thing about existence was not its lack of meaning, but rather the overwhelming abundance of freedom. If there are no guidelines, then we are all free, but with this freedom comes a sense of responsibility. We have to define how we exercise our freedom, we have to invent our own moral guidelines. By placing life’s meaning into the hands of an ‘authority’ such as democracy or religion we’re closing our eyes and shaking our heads, living in ‘bad faith’ says Sartre. He believed that we should live ‘authentically’, a state where we fully understand the weight of our freedoms and accept that we create life’s meaning. There is no such thing as a right answer until we choose one for ourselves. (From @history_art_philosophy on instagram)
— Jean Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
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In this post we’ll discuss existentialism. Plato and Aristotle were essentialists, believing that everything has an essence. It is this essence, for example, that causes us to recognise all tables as tables despite the fact that all tables are different. We too have essences argue essentialists, and our meaning is to be found in living according to some essential nature. In the late nineteenth century, Nietzsche challenged essentialism through nihilism, the belief that life has no meaning, in other words it is essence-less.
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This was the context into which Sartre arrived. Whilst essentialists argued that we are born with a set purpose, and nihilists said life has no predefined purpose, Sartre queried: what if we are born without a purpose, and then it is up to us to find our own meaning? This is the core belief of existentialism, that existence, the only thing we can really be sure of, precedes essence. We are born into a world which lacks purpose, a state existentialists call ‘absurdity’. Absurdity is a technical term which defines our search for answers in an answerless world. The world just exists, that’s it.
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Strangely for Sartre, the scariest thing about existence was not its lack of meaning, but rather the overwhelming abundance of freedom. If there are no guidelines, then we are all free, but with this freedom comes a sense of responsibility. We have to define how we exercise our freedom, we have to invent our own moral guidelines. By placing life’s meaning into the hands of an ‘authority’ such as democracy or religion we’re closing our eyes and shaking our heads, living in ‘bad faith’ says Sartre. He believed that we should live ‘authentically’, a state where we fully understand the weight of our freedoms and accept that we create life’s meaning. There is no such thing as a right answer until we choose one for ourselves. (From @history_art_philosophy on instagram)