What's your philosophy in life?
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shareHUMANIST/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]
Turn the other cheek.
I only have 2 cheeks.
Naturally, not talking about my ass.
It's all bullshit.
Only worry about the things I have control over.
shareThat makes no sense. Being in control should be angst reducing.
shareIt makes perfect sense to me - perhaps concerned is a better word, but why worry about things I personally have no control over.
That is a better word. The notion of trying to navigate through life, motivated by 'worry', made me uncomfortable.
shareThat 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.
shareUhh, gee ... I'll have to think about this a bit.
shareGolden 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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