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From Where Does Love Originate? Miguel de Unamuno Believed It to Be Shared Suffering and Pity
From where does love originate? Many thinkers have attempted to pin down its cause, but whether it be romantic or platonic, from where love originates remains elusive and amorphous. In one of the most beautiful descriptions of love, Michel de Montaigne left the cause of his friendship with Étienne de La Boétie firmly in the […]
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Does the Universe Have Metaphysical Meaning?
Note – this is part three of a three part series. In the previous post, Biological and Existential Meaning, I took the claim that the universe is without meaning and explored it strictly from a biological and existential perspective. This investigation into meaning cannot be complete without considering metaphysical meaning, which might also be called […]
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Trying to Find God in the Cosmological Argument
Where Did We Come From? Do you remember the first time you had that moment where the immensity, size, range, ratio and infinite nature of the universe suddenly struck you, and it was so overwhelmingly massive, your mind could not create a container large enough to hold it? And you wondered where it came from, […]
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How Should We Respond to Beauty?
Since beauty is around us all the time, how should we respond to it?
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To Live Is to Live Authentically
What is it to live authentically? And it is possible?
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Why Does Suffering Exist?
By Taylor Gross – The amount of suffering in the world seems disproportionate to the amount of human progress.
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Can Music Be Philosophical?
By Andrew Graziano – Only when you are captivated by an idea or theme do you then want to explore it. Mahler explains that the same concept applies to a piece of music.
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