Tag: Philosophy

• “I had motive for not wanting the world to have a meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption. The philosopher who finds no meaning in the world is not concerned exclusively with a problem in pure metaphysics, he is also concerned to prove that there is no valid reason why he personally should not do as he wants to do, or why his friends should not seize political power and govern in the way that they find most advantageous to themselves. … For myself, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation, sexual and political.” Aldous Huxley

  Adrienne Morris

  August 22, 2014

  Uncategorized

  Aldous Huxley, atheism, Christianity, God, Life, Philosophy, Politics, power, sexual freedom, What is the meaning of life?

• Books I’ve Known And Loved

  This one gets some people mad. Not me. I love a writer who dares you to think in new ways. Every page of this book offers something to ponder deeply. A lot of it feels true and just a bit sad. I think I have  more hope in Americans than Allan Bloom did but his…

  Adrienne Morris

  November 5, 2013

  Books I’ve Known and Loved, Uncategorized

  1980’s, Allan Bloom, Books, College Education, Harvard, Liberal Arts Colleges, Philosophy, Political Correctness, The Closing of the American Mind

• Search For Meaning In A Random Universe (Fiction)

  I don’t believe in randomness. Without a plan, I’m a basket case. I tried living the free life of self-indulgence and ended up drunkenly climbing an eight foot, chain-link fence to retrieve my shoe, leaving much of my wrist caught in a bloody mess at the top when I jumped. I told my family that…

  Adrienne Morris

  October 28, 2013

  books, Opinion, Writing

  Books, fiction, goodreads giveaway, Life, Modernism, Naturalism, Novels, Philosophy, Rationalism, Theism, Writers, Writing