Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On Sat, 14 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:

On Sat, 14 Dec 2024 19:02:23 +0100, D wrote:
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I thought about looking into Kierkegaard after reading some Karl
Jaspers,
but haven't gotten around to it yet.

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Another golden oldie. Existentialism was the cool thing in my youth and
Jaspers was often thrown into that bag along with Buber, Tillich, Sartre,
Camus and the rest of the usual suspects. Most of it either went over my

Well, at least philosophy was the cool thing in your youth. In my youth it was completely gone. ;)
Sartre and the french are completely incomprehensible to me, and just word-diarrhea if you ask me. So I always found existentialists not very impressive. Then I found Jaspers and he did have some interesting thoughts. A lot of it does read more like inspirational poetry, but there are some things there that I appreciate. So I usually find philosophers by looking at who they were inspired by. So in Jaspers there's some Nietzsche, and some Kierkegaard, and since I like Nietzsche, I figured the dane might be next on the list. Alternatively, move up a generation and see how is/was inspired by Jaspers.

head or under my feet, I'm not sure which. The offshoots like the theater
of the absurd were absurd. Sitting through 'The Bald Soprano'  was a once
in a lifetime experience, I hope.
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