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Death Be Not Proud
Death Be Not Proud We think of our life stories as headed toward a concluding sentence, after which, if they were novels, we would see written: “The End.” Not that everyone conceives this “end” the same way. Take Heidegger, the … Continue reading →
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Tagged A.J. Ayer, all is Love, all is One, Anglo-American Philosophy, Australian materialism, Authenticity, being-toward-death, brain as cause, brain as transmitter, brain effects of NDE's, brute power, close-mindedness, Coma Science Group, cultural breakthrough, David M. Armstrong, death, dogmatic skepticism, dominance and subordination, Dr. Francois Lallier, end of story, epiphenomenon, evidence for NDE's, experiences de mort imminente, fear of death, French existentialism, functional power, functionalism, German existentialism, golden rule, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean-Paul Sartre’s fundamental project, John Donne's Death Be Not Proud, life review, limitless love, losing the fear of death, Martin Heidegger, mauvaise foi, meaning of life, meeting deceased relatives, metaphysical idealism, metaphysical monism, metaphysical pluralism, my death, nature and nurture, NDE, NDE survivors' reports, NDE typical features, near death experience, out of body experiences, paradigm breaking, physicalism, Pim Van Lommel, privilege and oppression, quantum entanglement, science and the paranormal, scientific investigation of NDE's, Steven Laurey, supervenience, the for-itself, the in-itself, they-self, upward reductionism, veridical OBE's, Victor Zammit’s Friday Afterlife Report, worthiness of a life
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Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir
Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir Talk about a Power Couple! He is responsible for the 20th-century French Existentialist claims that life is absurd, God nonexistent, we create our identities and the values we give to our projects. And she? … Continue reading →
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Tagged acculturation, anti-nature, arbitrary life projects, aristocratic pretensions, École normale supérieure, beauty and ugliness, bourgeois values, Carol Seymour-Jones’ A Dangerous Liason, character formation, compensatory piety, constructed identity, contingency, cosmetic values, created identities, dowry, escaping poverty, everything is permitted, existential misjudgments, false aristocracy, female chastity, female nature, feminine submission, French aestheticism, French existentialism, God’s non-existence, good-looking Frenchmen, gratuitous act, human nature, human nothingness, inherited wealth, intellectuals and culture, invented identities, invented values, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness, Jean-Paul Sartre’s Nausea, lookism, making the best of circumstances, mariage de raison, marital failure, marrying for class, marrying for money, Merleau-Ponty, necessity and contingency, normaliens, Power couple, Sartre’s family, second wave feminism, self-invention, Simone de Beauvoir, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, social class, social enchantment, social power, submissive womanhood, the Big Questions, the for-itself, the in-itself, the ugly kid, verbal brilliance, wealth and privilege, without God, womanizing husband, women's liberation, words as weapons
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