s religious the same as metaphysical? If Heidegger claimed to overcome metaphysics, could there be a post-metaphysical meaning of religion? Perhaps of a Kierkegaardian sort? — Joshs
If Heidegger claimed to overcome metaphysics, could there be a post-metaphysical meaning of religion? Perhaps of a Kierkegaardian sort? — Joshs
To live creatively is to break the "rules" — matt
Are there really rules that aren't laws, though? And even if there are, what if someone doesn't want to break (some of) them? Do they have to live inauthentically to live creatively? That would seem odd. — Terrapin Station
It seems odd because you have it backwards, authenticity is the degree to which an individual's actions are congruent with their beliefs and desires, despite external pressures (“rules”). People make all sorts of compromises in their lives in order to be accepted. Many support shared fictions, that they know are fiction, in order to express solidarity with their ‘tribe’. Trump supporters are a recent and particularly ugly example of this. — praxis
In fact, someone might happen to agree with almost every rule. So they'd not be able to live both creatively and authentically, per this definition of what it is to live creatively. — Terrapin Station
To live creatively is to break the "rules" — matt
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