thanks, I hate it
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Replying to @Meaningness
The advice is fine. Yes, in a literal sense, the interconnected network of meaning can enrich your life and help you through trying times. Attempting to adjust to the loss of greater meanings or fictions lost is difficult, and this helps. It is *not* contrary to existentialism.
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Replying to @Commie_sama
So the thing you hated was that it mischaracterizes existentialism, in your view?
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Replying to @Meaningness
mischaracterizes it, and the idea that they're even contrary is silly upon further reflection how much different is "find meaning in individual things" from "choose meaning"? Really, it's a classic mistake to assume that existentialism/nihilism have "life has no meaning" as...
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Replying to @Commie_sama @Meaningness
a conclusion. Sure, some people believe that and go to despair. But there are so many beliefs and philosophies that extend from that premise, and you saying that your idea is somehow against it disregards all of them
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Replying to @Meaningness
Read "existentialism is a humanism"? "The ethics of ambiguity"? You can't form legitimate arguments against philosophies, nay, ideas, that you do not understand or have done research on.
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Replying to @Commie_sama
Yes, I have read both of those. (I recommend de Beauvoir’s piece in one if my discussions of ethics somewhere.)
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Replying to @Meaningness
So if you know that Beauvoir's ethics have a basis in existentialism, why would you think that existentialism -> despair?
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It’s one common outcome but not universal. (Even for full-fledged nihilism.) My objection is that independent individual choice is impossible. (This is more a Kierkegaard & early Heidegger thing than a Sartre one probably.)
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Replying to @Meaningness
does choice being dependent on outside things or outside people matter? It's still... choice.
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Replying to @Commie_sama
It mattered a lot to the existentialists. The necessity and possibility of perfectly free choice (which is “authentic”) vs culturally conditioned “bad faith” is the main point of _Being and Nothingness_ for instance.
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