Philosophy of Existence
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BBC Article, Neil Armstrong - Jan 15, 2020
"Can a thinker who last plied his trade two millennia ago really help? Does a controversial 19th-Century German scholar make a good life coach? Might the study of Jean-Paul Sartre be the key to a new you?"
BBC Article, Kelly Grovier, Dec 19,2019
"'Courage,' the pioneering French artist Henri Matisse once insisted, “is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he were seeing it for the first time.” If we are to believe the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, who died in 1860 (nine years before Matisse was born), courage isn’t only necessary in order to create; it is likewise required to see, feel, and appreciate a work of art, which alone offers humankind the opportunity to rise above the petty and soul-destroying distractions of this world."