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This essay also left lots of room for a non-religious person to adopt the same kind of non-ownership mindset. Maybe we should infer that this kind of happiness
by escapedmoose 5y ago
This essay also left lots of room for a non-religious person to adopt the same kind of non-ownership mindset. Maybe we should infer that this kind of happiness is something that could be cultivated without religious faith.
- Zababa 5y agoI don't know about non religious, but this part: > This means, against Hägglund, that the person best positioned to love and enjoy life is precisely the one who has made peace with its loss. In the language of Fear and Trembling, Abraham can’t really love Isaac until he is prepared to give him up. reminds me a lot of the concept of impermanence in Buddhism.
- escapedmoose 5y agoKierkegaard being an existentialist, I was thinking along the lines of secular existentialism. I like this line of his, on the topic of Abraham’s sacrifice: > Abraham ‘resigned everything infinitely, and then took everything back on the strength of the absurd’ “Making peace with the loss” of meaning/reason in the world seems a good secular parallel.