DE Weekly: Rope, Hitchcock, & the Übermensch
Existentialism explored what would be required of us in a world without meaning. What would we do––and what should we do––if there were really no inherent meaning, no natural moral order to adhere to?
Some existentialists came up with sound answers; Albert Camus espoused personal responsibility and a good faith search for meaningful ways to live honestly and fully.
DE Weekly: The Good, the True, & the Beautiful
What lies at the core of every philosophical inquiry, every invented line of thinking, and every word on every page of every philosophical treatise ever written? I would argue that philosophy’s aim throughout human history has been to ascertain “the Good, the True, and the Beautiful.”
The Good, the True, and the Beautiful is a classical philosophical concept with roots in Ancient Greece, conceptualized by Socrates and later by Plato and Aristotle.