However, as Nietzsche suggests, perhaps we have been misguided in the first place. We fill in the voids of our unanswered questions by pursuing socially constructed ideals: money, fame, the one. We seek comfort in the wise words of Descartes or Plato, find guidance in omnipotent beings through religious practices, and assign universal moral codes that instruct our every behavior.
Join Now Log in Home Literature Essays Asterios Polyp The Beauty of The Inevitables: An Analysis of David Mazzucchelli's Asterios PolypĪsterios Polyp The Beauty of The Inevitables: An Analysis of David Mazzucchelli's Asterios Polyp Anonymous 12th Gradeīut why must choice always lie along a linear spectrum, with two poles, instead of, say, among a sphere of possibilities? (Mazzucchelli, Asterios Polyp: Statues, 7)Īs human beings, we spent our whole lives seeking, looking for the ultimate truth of our existence: Why are we here? In the grand scheme of the universe, our individual lives seem so unimportant, so insignificant.
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