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Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 23:05:48 +0100
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On Sat, 14 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:

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