Thoughts: death has a dictatorial relationship with the vast majority of us, affecting our lives with imposing finality, causing us to construct meaning and superstition in our existence relative to its ending. The fear of the eternity of non-existence has shaped the beliefs and cultures of the living, yet if we understand non-existence to be timeless, then the fear of being forever non-existent quickly evaporates. So long as we are consciously alive, our sense of being alive is never ending; fearing something we can’t sense, makes no sense.
Source: The Tractatus Logico-Philisophicus, 6.4311
I’m a great fan of Wittgenstein, try to revisit his works regularly. Enjoy your writing.
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Thanks mate, I’m currently reading the Tractatus actually — it’s definitely some mind-bending material. Have you read it? Cheers for the comment!
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I’ve read parts of it but recently was reading his philosophical investigations, it is immensely satisfying but arduous at times. Have you read Jacques Derrida?
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I still need to read that. I haven’t, worth a look?
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It is, really wonderful stuff. Less cryptic in places
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Great, might be a good breather from the Tractatus!
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He seems more aware of the reader than in Tractatus.
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