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I think this person is talking about existential angst, or possibly existential dread, neither of which can properly be termed "depression" in the psychological, or "clinical" sense Someone must be studying my depression because they are reading my book. The good thing is that I am already aware of this. I don't think it's a kind of depression. I just think it's having clear that death is the last stop. It's taboo to mention death. It's like if people had trouble understanding that's our final destination. I don't. And I hate when people goes "Ohhhh but don't say that, you know you're not dying tomorrow!". I couldn't care less. It's not like if I wanted to die, but I just don't care. What is the real trouble of dying right now? Sure, I wan't to do skydiving and visit New Zealand, but will it matter if I die? I repeat, I'm not suicidal. I really love to be alive and I consider myself a happy person, but I'm not really attached to life, as I'm not attached to... practically anything. It's weird to find your own thoughts creepy. If your thoughts are creepy then so are mine because I feel the same way Humans are entirely free [...]Are they? [...] and, therefore, entirely responsible for their own happiness or misery.Is that so? It is not merely the attribute "entirely" which I cast doubts on. It's rather the complete merciless Calvinistic winners' ideology behind those words. It is the fairy tale which people who are walking on the bright side of life, tell each other to praise their virtuousness. But by all those on earth who have no easy armchair to settle their bottom and no sure prospects besides bleak ones, that fairy tale is proved to be a self-complacent, self-pleasing, self-satisfying, quasi socially masturbating, merciless, goddamned jabberwocky. «In human freedom in the philosophical sense I am definitely a disbeliever. Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity. Schopenhauer's saying, that "a man can do as he will, but not will as he will," has been an inspiration to me since my youth up, and a continual consolation and unfailing well-spring of patience in the face of the hardships of life, my own and others'. This feeling mercifully mitigates the sense of responsibility which so easily becomes paralyzing, and it prevents us from taking ourselves and other people too seriously; it conduces to a view of life in which humor, above all, has its due place.» Interesting discussion. Freedom and responsibility according to existential philosophy, is not about facts or conditions of life. These are philosophical propositions that are offered as a worldview or better yet as a blueprint of one's self description. Of course it affects the way one relates and interprets facts and conditons of existence. As such, the proposition of freedom cannot be affirmed or refuted as a scientific hypothesis. It is based on what Searle calls subjective ontology. |
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