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If you don’t get it, read on… For this post I’m taking off my academic philosopher hat to gloss over fine distinctions I might otherwise make. I want to do philosophy for las masas. Wherever I use ’emotion’ in this entry, don’t think of it in a technical sense. I just mean any of drive, […]
Read More Emotion, Desire, and Life ChoicesIntroductionAround this time of year my news feed is infected with click-baity articles or facebook statuses about how New Year’s resolutions are stupid or bad or whatever and “I’m better than people who make NY resolutions because I recognize that every day, NAY! every second! is an opportunity to redefine myself for the better. So there, […]
Read More A Defense of New Year’s Resolutions (That THEY Don’t Want You to Know About)IntroductionExistentialism can be summarized in one phrase, “existence precedes essence.” But what does this mean? Pre-existentialism, philosophical systems presumed Man had an essence. To understand what that means consider a chair. Chairs don’t just randomly pop into existence…no sir! Before they are created someone or something has to have a concept of what a chair […]
Read More Doing What Feels Right and Sartre’s Existentialism
Wrestling with Philosophy 