Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
having a human-only focus ultimately leads to anguish and despair.
Erica Brown • Ecclesiastes: and the Search for Meaning
Our good or bad depends on no one but ourselves. Montaigne,
Ward Farnsworth • The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual
how to be human
a collection of ideas about being embodied flesh, emotion, soul
malakai imani • 9 cards
Possiamo controllarlo in base a come decidiamo di considerarli, agli standard su cui scegliamo di misurarli.
Mark Manson • La sottile arte di fare quello che c***o ti pare (Italian Edition)
human project
Richard Tarnas • Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View
Maybe human civilisation is like a single life – we grow out of the royalty of childhood into supreme normality; we find out about our own unspecialness and in a flush of innocence we feel quite glad – if we’re not special then we might not be alone.
Samantha Harvey • Orbital
And what is that end which is desirable for its own sake? There is ‘very general agreement’ about this, Aristotle says; both ‘the general run of men and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness’ (eudaimonia). (‘Happiness’ is an inadequate translation of this term: ‘well-being and well-doing’, ‘flourishing’, would be better.)
A. C. Grayling • The History of Philosophy
People are messy, unpredictable, and prone to taking things personally, on account of being persons.
Nora McInerny • Bad Vibes Only: (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)
in linear eschatologies, the end times for humanity are often referred to as “the end of the world,” even though our departure from Earth will very probably not be the end of the world, nor will it be the end of life in the world.