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What's your philosophy in life?


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HUMANIST/EXITENTIALIST

Existential Humanism

Existential humanism is humanism that validates the human subject as struggling for self-knowledge and self-responsibility.

Concepts

Søren Kierkegaard suggested that the best use of our capacity for making choices is to freely choose to live a fully human life, rooted in a personal search for values, rather than an external code.[2]

Jean-Paul Sartre said "existentialism is a humanism" because it expresses the power of human beings to make freely-willed choices, independent of the influence of religion or society.[3] Unlike traditional humanisms, however, Sartre disavowed any reliance on an essential nature of man – on deriving values from the facts of human nature – but rather saw human value as self-created through undertaking projects in the world: experiments in living.[4]

Albert Camus, in his book The Plague, suggests that some of us may choose to be heroic, even knowing that it will bring us neither reward nor salvation;[citation needed] and Simone de Beauvoir, in her book The Ethics of Ambiguity, argues that embracing our own personal freedom requires us to fight for the freedoms of all humanity.[5]


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Turn the other cheek.

I only have 2 cheeks.
Naturally, not talking about my ass.

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Simplify. The less complicated you make your life, the better.

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I've adopted that outlook at times but especially during my retirement years. I've compared it to electricity, taking the path of least resistance. It appeals to my free-spirited, energetic nature.

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i agree with that too.

to an almost radical extent, in that i've pretty much rid my life of everything except my bike & laptop & a week of clothes.

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I'm in the extremely slow process of doing just that. I'm trying to get rid of anything that isn't essential.

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It's all bullshit.

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Only worry about the things I have control over.

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That makes no sense. Being in control should be angst reducing.

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It makes perfect sense to me - perhaps concerned is a better word, but why worry about things I personally have no control over.

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That is a better word. The notion of trying to navigate through life, motivated by 'worry', made me uncomfortable.

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That was my point although I guess I didn't make it very clear the first time, There are so many things happening in the world, my country, state, locally, that could drive me nuts if I let them, but I don't because they are completely out of my control.

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Uhh, gee ... I'll have to think about this a bit.

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Golden Rule...

... I guess. More of a principle than a philosophy and a thing I fail at just as often as anyone else does but: Golden Rule.

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