Tag: meaning
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Understanding “Understanding” and the Definition of “Definition”
In the last post I said that I understood life and the world pretty well. That is a grand claim. Based on what I’ve seen, most academic philosophers try to avoid such claims. I once heard a professional philosopher on a podcast say, “I don’t know what philosophy is.” “So you’re charging students to teach…
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You Can’t Fail in Life
The last two posts have been talking about nihilism as almost a cure to the pressures of life. Continuing along the same line, one consequence of life being meaningless is that you can’t do life wrong. There is no way to fail in life. We are all just living beings, experiencing life in the universe…
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The Pressures of Human Life
When I was a teenager, all adults would tell me how important it was for me to do well in my studies and get into a good college. I was a good student so I was expected to “achieve my full potential” by getting a good job (engineer or doctor). After that it was expected…
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Early Signs of My Emerging Philosophy
An old piece showing my philosophy taking shape even before I considered myself a philosopher.
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DEVLOG 4: Trimming the Fat from the Kernel
Since the last devlog, there’s been significant progress—not just in the structure of my philosophical system, but also in how I’ve begun applying it to my own life. It started with a core question: What does it mean to live a meaningful life? I found myself challenging the traditional pursuit of “success” and realized that…
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Rudya Aditya 