Living without a why: what if Eckhart succeeded? Saint Eckhart?
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Dr. Johnson teaches philosophy at Georgia Tech. He is the author of Paradox at Play: Metaphor in Meister Eckhart's Sermons by Catholic University of America Press. It includes many sermons never before translated into English.
Meister Eckhart, Paradox at Play
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I’d like to hear how Eckhart's idea of "living without a why" creates meaning and is a defense against Nihilism. And contrast that with Nietzsche's idea that "he who has a why to live can bear almost any how." Having a clear purpose or reason for living (a "why") can provide the strength and motivation to endure even the most difficult circumstances or challenges (the "how"). This seems like a more robust defense against nihilism.
Very nicely done. People need an open mind to examine some of the variety of thoughts out there even when in the end you disagree.
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Thanks! Yes indeed…
This was absolutely incredible to think with! Zen of Eckhart for Christ!
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About 7:22 - but does the claim that Eckhart was a mystic not interfere with his rigorous philosophical method? If anything, he rather can be understood as an intellectualist in the sense that the divine intellect had precedence per se?
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I think it enhances it. Philosophy should always be involved in lived experience, in my opinion. Plato wrote dialogues after all