Sublime

I believe the influence of Kierkegaard on Camus is underestimated. I believe Dennis Gabor may very well have been the Antichrist. I believe Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror. I believe, with Hegel, that transcendence is absorption.

There, she argued that the question of the relationship between our physical constraints and the assertion of our freedom is not a ‘problem’ requiring a solution. It is simply the way human beings are. Our condition is to be ambiguous to the core, and our task is to learn to manage the movement and uncertainty in our existence, not to banish it.

Years ago, it had occurred to me that Darwin and Nietzsche agreed on one thing: the defining characteristic of the organism is striving. Describing life otherwise was like painting a tiger

The philosopher Erik Wielenberg argues for this, what he calls “non-natural non-theistic moral realism.”

mortality makes it impossible to ignore the absurdity of living solely for the future.

The alternative is known as anti-Humeanism,

This correspondence between belief and reality is commonly called “truth

it always involves a metaphysics of transcendence.