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The Neighbor's Donkey: Responsibility and Evasion

Tags: Kierkegaard, Camus, Hofstede, philosophy, ethics, responsibility, fatalism, tawakkul, existentialism, culture, Middle East, individual freedom, essay

Fatalism or rebellion: are both forms of evasion? From Hofstede to Kierkegaard and Camus, a philosophical essay on where genuine ethical responsibility lives.

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Purpose, Meaning, Harmony and Our Insignificance

Tags: teleology, teleonomy, the problem of purpose, the search for meaning, Plato, Aristotle, Kierkegaard, Sartre, Camus, complexity theory, purpose and meaning, history of philosophy, final cause, existentialism, science and philosophy, adaptation, emergence

A brief journey explaining the quest for purpose and meaning, stretching from teleology to teleonomy, from Plato to Camus.

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