2007-10-15

ineffabelle: (contemplative)
2007-10-15 08:32 pm

I can haz pithy aphorismz?

Before we can de-alienate labor in the material world, we must do so in our imaginations.

We have a moral imperative to work, but not to work for anyone in particular, nor for money, nor at any particular task.

The meaning of our lives is and must be unique to our own situation, and can only be revealed by an examination of our own action.

The meaning of freedom is that we can redefine our project for ourselves at any moment.

Intersubjectivity demands that we exist not only for ourselves, but for others as well. Yet, as pure nothingness, however constrained by material facticity, we get to define what that other is that we transcend our current situation for. (that one wasn't so pithy, but it's a good concise existential idea)

Narcissism is the most self-destructive impulse. And yet as such, it can lead to the greatest heights of transcendence, once you get out of it...
However, you must get out of it to reap its rewards.

(Now it's your turn. Give me moar pithy aphorisms plz.)