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The Various Opinions On The Human Condition
The paradox of the human condition knows no bounds. It is actually a Sisyphean task, and one can only hope for enough joy in it to continue on. Thus we find any number of distractions, from faith to hedonism to family, all of which has its veneer of respectability depending on the society.
Existentialism is often linked with its most distinguished proponents, typically brooding and even pessimistic, from Ingmar Bergman to Jean-Paul Sartre, but it also can claim among its leading lights such great souls as Erich Fromm, Viktor Frankl, Richard Taylor, Hermann Hesse, and Krishnamurti, whose insights are "sunlit" regardless of accounting for the full record of human torment.
Erich Fromm is best known for his eminently readable treatise The Art of Loving which offers a view of love radically unlike any ever espoused. Among his many alarming insights is the proven fact that many people think only in terms of being loved, while love is properly about being loving. Viktor Frankl identifies a sense of purpose, or meaning, as being the primary force to human existence after the most immediate needs of food, shelter, and clothing are met.
His ideas are put to the harshest test possible first-hand in a series of nazi death camps where the psychiatrist is a captive the subject of the most brutal of abject deprivation and humiliation. Such insights from an enlightened sensitive man who has literally been to hell and back are worth considering!
Richard Taylor ( Good and Evil ), Hermann Hesse ( On Trees ), and Krishnamurti ( Commentary on Living ) all share a grounded outlook that is at once straightforward without being simplistic. Taylor talks about the purpose of life, while Hesse's essay talks about life without end or purpose. Krishnamurti also avoids talks of should, ought, must, preferring instead to focus on understanding what is. The second 2 are more mystical in flavor but no less profound in insight, and while some of these names are not names typically connected with the existential cannon the issues they deal with not to mention the insights they offer, can only enrich our appreciation of the human condition which is to assert, help us know ourselves.
Taylor notes that conceptions of the good life have been set up on rationality rather than desideration. By way of this vital understanding, he is ready to show that issues of life's purpose are unavoidably flawed unless we consider that the question is not one to be resolved through rationalization alone, a perspective shared by Hesse and Krishnamurti.
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