Perhaps I owe Dopp a beer...

[angellous_evangellous]

I've been studying my own epistemology and discovered that I'm an existentialist.

Very mild, but it's pretty critical to my thinking. I've been considering myself something of a Common Sense philosopher, and now I'll have to be an existentialist.

*gasp*

What the heck am I going to do with myself?

 

[Nanda]

Oooh! All you need now is a good firm push over to nihilism! Come over to the daaaaark siiiiiiide!

 

[Inky]

I just read up on existentialism a bit and it sounds like it has a lot in common with postmodernism--is there a historical link? I like postmodernist thought but I can't apply it constantly; it'd suck the fun out of life. : )

 

[angellous_evangellous]

I just read up on existentialism a bit and it sounds like it has a lot in common with postmodernism--is there a historical link? I like postmodernist thought but I can't apply it constantly; it'd suck the fun out of life. : )

Sure is... existentialism defines post-modernism. :yes:

See, for example, the wiki article on post-modernism:

Postmodernism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thinkers in the mid and late 19th century and early 20th century, like Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche, through their argument against objectivity, and emphasis on skepticism (especially concerning social morals and norms), laid the groundwork for the existentialist movement of the 20th century

 

[Smoke]

What the heck am I going to do with myself?

I believe the standard procedure is to wallow in your own angst.

 

[Nanda]

I believe the standard procedure is to wallow in your own angst.

Wheeeeeeeee! :disco:

 

[Willamena]

I've heard a dozen different descriptions of existentialism, such that I still have no idea what it is.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

I believe the standard procedure is to wallow in your own angst.

Narcissists don't do that.

 

[Nanda]

Narcissists don't do that.

:biglaugh: Sure...

What was it Al Gore said about postmodernism? "It’s the combination of narcissism and nihilism that really defines postmodernism."

 

[doppelganger]

I believe the standard procedure is to wallow in your own angst.

Though chasing it with a beer is not out of the question.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

Though chasing it with a beer is not out of the question.

Well put.

I'll self-actualize a very nice Shiner tonight in your honor, dopp.

 

[doppelganger]

Well put.

I'll self-actualize a very nice Shiner tonight in your honor, dopp.

I'll drink a 1554 and read a little more Hegel in your honor. My wife's brother is defending his dissertation on Hegel in a few months. So it's a double celebration. Heck, I'll have two 1554s.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

I'll drink a 1554 and read a little more Hegel in your honor. My wife's brother is defending his dissertation on Hegel in a few months. So it's a double celebration. Heck, I'll have two 1554s.

Sounds cool, but what the heck is a 1554?

 

[lunamoth]

I've been studying my own epistemology and discovered that I'm an existentialist.

I wonder if there's a cure for that.

 

[Yerda]

Sounds cool, but what the heck is a 1554?

Surely it's a 1664 with a twist.

P.S. Hegel sucks.

 

[robtex]

Nate, philosophy has one difference from religion. You can find merit in more than one school of thought without feeling you have shifted loyalty to your aspirations of the first group. For instance you could find merit in existentialist writings and utilitarianism writing.

Which existentialists have you been reading? After reading your posts on here about the existence of God I mentally categorized your idea of God akin to that of Soren Kirkland 's idea of
God that he explains in fideism

footnote:
What is Fideism?

 

[angellous_evangellous]

Nate, philosophy has one difference from religion. You can find merit in more than one school of thought without feeling you have shifted loyalty to your aspirations of the first group. For instance you could find merit in existentialist writings and utilitarianism writing.

Which existentialists have you been reading? After reading your posts on here about the existence of God I mentally categorized your idea of God akin to that of Soren Kirkland 's idea of
God that he explains in fideism

footnote:
What is Fideism?

I'm reading Heidegger now. I think that I align with fideism somewhat, but I'm not consciously aware of their influence in my thinking.

 

[UnTheist]

I wonder if there's a cure for that.

Drink some beer

 

[angellous_evangellous]

Drink some beer

Beer only increases existentialism.:yes:

 

[UnTheist]

Beer only increases existentialism.:yes:

How much do you need to get to the point of Nihilism?