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EXISTENTIALISM AS A HUMANISM Sartre uses three words to describe the state of humans struggling to live in an absurd world where existence comes before essence, and all three are a result of the overwhelming responsibility of being totally responsible for ourselves, our thoughts, decisions, and actions. He discusses the fact that ‘freedom’ comes withContinue reading “Sartre”

Simone de Beauvoir Blog #5 It’s 2020 and we’re still trying to understand women, who in case you didn’t know, have been around just as long as men. So here are a few hints to truly understand what really makes us tick: 1) we get absolutely hysterical and can’t make rational decisions at certain timesContinue reading “Woman as the Other”

Some ramblings, no solutions or conclusions, on the subject of “The Sunken Place” I’ve always been extremely uncomfortable being a white person, among a group of white people, talking as if we have the slightest understanding of what black people feel, think, or experience. We don’t know. I found an interview with Peter Rubin, aContinue reading “Get Out”

This blog began when the pandemic was barely underway, but it’s now almost the middle of April and I’ve had a chance to absorb the immensity of it and observe some remarkable things. I think the most important thing I/we can learn from this pandemic is to remember what we learn while we are inContinue reading “Camus/Pandemic”

Preview(opens in a new tab) I think Mr. Nietzsche’s Eternal Recurrence exercise and how he presented it is clever, cold, and somewhat cruel. s quite arrogant to demand that one’s willingness to prove having lived a valuable life can only be established by one’s choice of whether or not to relive it for eternity. NietzscheContinue reading “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”

Nietzsche, the Nihilist: Nietzsche had more faith in the natural world than he did in humans. He saw us as having minimal understanding of the earth which we falsely interpreted as having no irregularities and functioning in accordance with what we deemed as true and important. Of course this was based on our egocentric fearsContinue reading “Nihilism and Anti-Nihilism”

In reading several articles about this film ahd how it realate Why aren’t Phyllis and Walter satisfied with their lives? In Double Indemnity, Walter and Phyllis are two lonely people living hum-drum lives with no sense of fulfillment and little to look forward to. Phyllis is nothing more than a trophy wife playing second fiddleContinue reading “Double Indemnity”

Albert Camus believed that happiness could be achieved by not only accepting the absurdity of the meaningless cycle of a dull and repetitive lackluster life, but by facing and embracing it with every bit of one’s potential. He was effected by the plight of the factory workers who, like drones, lived lives where their painContinue reading “Sisyphus”