The present age
by Søren Kierkegaard · first published 1851
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…entertainment with books works as well. Philosophy to me is less about studying philosophy itself as a topic but encountering different people's various personal philosophies about things. Kierkegaard's "The Present Age" and Glenn Gould's perspective on anxiety helped me a lot.
on “Why I Majored in Philosophy Despite Everyone Telling Me Not To (2013)” ↗…process "by which the individual person loses himself in the vast emptiness of a public mind" - which is a lot like "alienation" in modern day. Which also reminds me, I should check out Kierkegaard's The Present Age. [1]: https://thevalueofsparrows.wordpress.com/2014/03/29/saturday...
on “A touch of absurdity can help to wrap your mind around reality” ↗