The Mood of the Age Albert Camus (1913-1960) wrote that suicide is the only serious philosophical problem. Deciding whether or not life is worth living is to answer the fundamental question in philosophy. All other questions follow from that. Camus, Myth of Sisyphus. Camus held that it was absurd to seek meaning in life when […]
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Christmas!
If you want to know whether it’s Christmas or not, go to www.isitchristmas.com. There you’ll find a one-word answer. For 364 days of each year, that answer is “NO.” On just one day, it’s “YES.” Try it. Small children are adorable partly because they are constantly experiencing new things, and their sense of wonder and […]
Read more...Review (Part Three): The Experience of God — Being Consciousness Bliss, by David Bentley Hart
Being Wonder Hart has set the stage for his discussion of being, consciousness, and bliss, and now we start with being; by which he means the astonishing fact of existence of anything. All serious thought, Hart says, begins in a moment of “unsettling or delighted surprise.” Hart describes it as a “primordial agitation of the mind.” That […]
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