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"My Philosophy for a Happy Life" was recorded in 2013 by Berns at the TEDxMidAtlantic, [15] and has been viewed over 53 million times on YouTube and has the most comments of any TEDTalk at over 51,000 (as of September 2024) and 1.1 million likes. [16] [17] [18]
The phrase Reverence for Life is a translation of the German phrase: "Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben."These words came to Albert Schweitzer on a boat trip on the Ogooué River in French Equatorial Africa (now Gabon), while searching for a universal concept of ethics for our time.
The first English use of the expression "meaning of life" appears in Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus (1833–1834), book II chapter IX, "The Everlasting Yea". [1]Our Life is compassed round with Necessity; yet is the meaning of Life itself no other than Freedom, than Voluntary Force: thus have we a warfare; in the beginning, especially, a hard-fought battle.
Existential nihilism is the philosophical theory that life has no objective meaning or purpose. [1] The inherent meaninglessness of life is largely explored in the philosophical school of existentialism, where one can potentially create their own subjective "meaning" or "purpose".
75 Epictetus Quotes on Life, Philosophy and Empowerment. Kellye Fox. July 27, 2024 at 8:40 AM. Epictetus was a Greek philosopher from present-day Turkey. He was born into slavery around 55 AD and ...
The philosophy of life is philosophy in the informal sense, as a way of life whose focus is resolving the existential questions about the human condition The main article for this category is Meaning of life .
Characteristics that regularly recur in the work of Lebensphilosophie thinkers, although not in every writer, can be summarized as follows: [14] [15] Life is central: in contrast to empiricism and materialism on the one hand, which place matter central, or idealism and rationalism on the other, which place intellect central, the philosophy of life wants to explain the world from the ...
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos is a 2018 self-help book by the Canadian clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson. It provides life advice through essays in abstract ethical principles, psychology, mythology, religion, and personal anecdotes.