Existentialism

The Dalai Lama Told Me So -- Words of Wisdom From the 2012 Templeton Prize Winner

Davia Temin | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Stress, Cruelty, $2 Million, Dalai Lama, Despair, Antidote, Templeton Prize, Miracle, St Pauls Cathedral, Evil, Redemption, Existentialism, Compassion, Truth, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, Religion News

As I was listening to His Holiness, a question sprung full-blown to my mind: "Can, and if so, how, can those who have lost their compassion, or never had it to begin with, regain it?

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Is Faith The Rejection Of Reality?

Rabbi Alan Lurie | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: What Is God, God, Existentialism, Scripture Commentary, Faith, What Is Faith, Judaism, Religion News

There seems to be a belief that "faith" is the rejection of the world as it is; a retreat in to fantasy and wishful thinking. As Friedrich Nietzsche wrote, "Faith means not wanting to know what is true."

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How's Your Existential Maturity?

Judith Johnson | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Fear of Death, Death and Dying, Existential Maturity, Denial of Death, Existentialism, Accepting Death, Denying Death, Fear Death, Deny Death, Existentialism Death, Death Denying, Death & Dying, Understanding Death, Healthy Living News

I like to imagine what our lives and society would be like if we lived in a world that encouraged and valued existential maturity. What would it be like if we were taught and motivated to connect to a deep sense of self and to live our lives from that place?

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Is Buddhism Agnostic?

Thomas David DuBois | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Atheism, Tibetan Buddhism, Consciousness, Karma, Buddhism, Agnosticism, Existentialism, Religion News

Ask two Buddhists about what they believe, and you won't just get two different answers -- you might get three or four. On the one hand, the sheer size and diversity of the Buddhist tradition makes it impossible to say what "Buddhists" think.

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Kafka, Faith and Atheism: An Interview With Martin Walser

Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Video, Martin Walser, Atheism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Existentialism, Faith, Franz Kafka, Religion News

The European By Alexander Görlach Alexander Görlach of The European sat down with the German writer and intellectual Martin Walser to discuss th...

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Why Post 50 Males Must Resist Becoming "Standardized Old Men"

Brent Green | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: David Cogswell, Existentialism, Baby Boomer Men, Walt Whitman, Friedrich Nietzsche, Brent Green, Generation, Baby Boomers, Post 50 Men, Boomers, Huffpost 50, Fifty News

This is a generation that has never settled for outdated traditions, and collectively men over 50 will create new images of male aging. The sociology of Boomer male aging has vast implications for business, from edgy new products to inspired services.

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Christmas From The Outside In: A Meditation

William Grassie | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Christmas, Jesus, Addiction, Luck, Evolution, Terror, God, Survivor, Existentialism, Religion News

But there is more going on than mere survival and reproduction. Jesus is an existential question mark for what we hold most true, good and beautiful in the human drama.

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Political Art Timeline, 1945-1966: Postwar Art of the Left

G. Roger Denson | Posted 02.02.2012

Read More: Elizabeth Catlett, Gillo Pontecorvo, Stanley Kubrick, Pop Art, Picasso, Komar and Melamid, Guy Debord, Political Art, The Gulag Archipelago, Jacob Lawrence, Feliks Topolski, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Minimalism, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Existentialism, Theresienstadt Camp, Felix Nussbaum, Shu Ogawara, Situationists, Holocaust Art, House Committee on UnAmerican Activities, Concentration Camp Artists, Vienna-Actionists, Simone De Beauvoir, Abstract Expressionism, Political Art Timeline, Arts News

Most demarcations of historical epochs are necessarily vague. Not this one.

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Art and Time

Brian D. Cohen | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Art, Existentialism, Arts News

More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life. -- Raine...

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War and Peace: Re-Starting Life By Reading Books

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Authors, Leo Tolstoy, Purpose, Meaning of Life, War and Peace, Existentialism, Existence, Books, Books News

How should we live? I look for answers in books. And War and Peace is a source to be mined again and again, a book that will never grow dusty for the re-start it offers.

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The Bad Faith Of American Exceptionalism

Kent Hayden, M.Div. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 9/11, Religion, American Exceptionalism, Existentialism, American Fundamentalism, Glenn Beck, Faith in America, Religious Fundamentalism, Religion News

If we are to be an exceptional people, it must be because we are an accepting people -- a people with the humility to include our own normalcy in our identity, and to stand up anyway in the midst of difficulties and do what's right.

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On Nénette

Michael Vazquez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Zoos, Marina Abramovi?, Jean-Paul Sartre, Film, Animals in Captivity, Alain Resnais, Michael Vazquez, Mon Oncle D'Amérique, Nénette, Existentialism, Being and Nothingess, Arts News

On Nénette By Michael Vazquez Marina Abramović, stare your heart out...As befits our gawking society, if you're in New York City, you have 48 hour...

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A Note To The Pope: Thanks, But I Do Have Meaning In Life

G. Elijah Dann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Christianity, Stephen Hawking, Meaning of Life, Religion Debate, Carpe Diem, Purpose of Life, Religion and Science, Existentialism, Pope Benedict XVI, Nihilism, Purpose Driven Life, Rick Warren, Religion News

Whether we can have meaning and purpose in life really isn't a religious/secular debate. All reflective people can find important and meanings and purposes.

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Are We Really THAT Pathetic?

Donna Fish | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Child Development, Social Networking, Mindfulness, Twitter, Youtube, Eating Disorders, Facebook, Existentialism, Healthy Living News

I know I am a bit of a dinosaur when it comes to this 'social networking' business. I don't 'twit', I barely look at my 'facebook', and I just got a ...

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Annabella Gonzalez Dance Troupe Presents Spring Series Juntos - "United"

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York City Public Library, Puerto Rico, Beacon Theater, Hammerstein Ballroom, Switzerland, New Choreographers Ensemble, Jazz, Thought Leaders, Eric Vlach, Zalman Raffael, Ailey Citigroup Theater, Philippe Bachy, Martha Graham School, Afro-Caribbean Music, Maxine Steinman, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Oiww, New York State Council on the Arts, Fund for Creative Communities, Vladimir Dokoudovsky, Lucia Campoy, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, John Lee, Max Lifchitz, Annabella Gonzalez Dance Troupe, Carnegie Hall, Dominican Republic, Benjamin Briones, Tisch School of the Arts, Latin America, Joseph Papp Latin Festival, Mexico, Jogujo Circuit, Stefania De Kenessey, Mexican Dance, Ailey School, North/South Consonance, New York City, Manhattan Movement and Arts Center, Columbia University Teachers College, Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, Mayab Happy Taco, Existentialism, Frank Cassara, Marcos Emanuel De Jesus, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Global Citizenship Award, Cantare Mi Bomba, Agdt, Jorge Fuentes, Orphans International Worldwide, Heather Panikkar, Richard Grimm, Spain, 92nd Street Y, Annabella Gonzalez, Juntos, Fanfare, Entertainment News

The latest offering from the Annabella Gonzalez Dance Troup (AGDT), Juntos ('United'), was triumphant. I was particularly impressed with the strengt...

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January 4, 1960: Albert Camus Dies In a Car Crash, Age 46. His Books Make Him Immortal

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Headbutler, Cartier-Bresson, Camus, Car Crash, The Plague, Existentialism, Seven Sisters, Books News

On January 4, 1960 --- exactly fifty years ago --- Albert Camus had a train ticket to Paris in his pocket.

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The Power of Positive Negative Thinking

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Existentialism, Pessimism, Optimism, Pessimism: Philosophy Ethic Spirit, Power of Positive Thinking, Barbara Ehrenreich Bright-Sided, Books, Barbara Ehrenreich, Joshua Foa Dienstag, Bright-Sided, Dienstag, Books News

There are thoughtful folks among us like Joshua Foa Dienstag who says we should embrace, or at least, form an acquaintance with the alternative to positive thinking -- PESSIMISM!

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The Homeless Angel

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dread, Lake Michigan, Security, Homelessness, Existentialism, Green Technology, Chicago News

My loneliness is crystal clear. I call it the Big Empty. Awareness and acceptance will have to do as my prayer.

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Writing Under the Influence, Living Under the Influence

David Finkle | Posted 11.17.2011

Although her title is an eyebrow-raiser, Elizabeth Hawes knows what she's doing. With Camus, a Romance, her new and unconventional work, she isn't simply writing a biography.

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Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead: An Unconventional Crappy Hour

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Clinton, Sleeplessness, Jezebel, Democratic National Convention, Megan Carpentier, Bourbon, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Existentialism, Taxi, Denver, Politics News

Here in Denver, Colorado, we are all just Americans in search of a more perfect union. Specifically between ourselves and the taxicabs we called for ...

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Fear Of Faith

Arianna Huffington | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mind.Body.Soul, Faith, Spirituality, Fear of Dying, Bernard Levin, Religions, Fear of Spirituality, Fear of Faith, William Barrett, Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism, On Becoming Fearless, How to Be Fearless, Healthy Living News

In the twentieth century, the response to fear-filled religiosity has been atheism and fear-filled alienation from all things spiritual. Alienation ma...

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