what is the definition of an existential hero?
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well, look up existentialism. they are usually afraid of the dark, have severe vices (heavy drinking, lots of women), ummm... live by the "you only live once" philosophy... hemmingway is a great example of it. \n\nif you can't find existentialism, look up transcendatalism, its the opposite.
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CHEESE!\n\nOr if you want a more philisophical answer:\n\n"What is the meaning of life?" is a question many people ask themselves. Some people believe that the meaning of life is:\n\n...to accumulate wealth \n...to achieve a supernatural connection within the natural context \n...to advance natural human evolution, or to contribute to the gene pool of the human race \n...to advance technological evolution, or to actively develop the future human \n...to be without question, or to keep asking questions \n...to become God, or God-like \n...to compete or co-operate with others \n...to contribute to collective meaning ("we" or "us") without having individual meaning ("I" or "me") \n...to destroy others who harm you, or to practice nonviolence and nonresistance \n...to die, or become a martyr \n...to experience existence from an infinite number of perspectives in order to expand the consciousness of all there is (i.e. God) \n...to express compassion \n...to find inner peace \n...to gain and exercise power \n...to give and receive love \n...to give life meaning (an example of antimetabole) \n...to learn and find enlightenment \n...to leave a legacy, such as a work of art or a book \n...to live in peace with each other, and in harmony with our natural environment (see utopia) \n...to produce offspring through sexual reproduction \n...to produce useful structure in the universe over and above consumption (see net creativity) \n...to pursue a dream, vision, or destiny \n...to relate, connect, or achieve unity with others \n...to seek and acquire virtue, to live a virtuous life \n...to seek and find beauty \n...to seek freedom, either physically, mentally, financially, or spiritually \n...to seek happiness and flourish, experience pleasure or celebrate \n...to seek truth, knowledge, understanding, or wisdom \n...to serve others, or do good deeds \n...to simply live until one dies (there is no universal or celestial purpose, existence has no meaning beyond which one chooses to give it) \n...to survive, including the pursuit of immortality through scientific means (see life extension) \n...to try to understand the meaning of life \n...to work for justice and democracy \n...to worship, serve, or achieve union with God \n...or some combination of the above
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i believe what you mean are "existential" and "universal" claims. the word existential refers to words such as some, many, few, or any other word which implies the existence of another set which does not contain members for which the "some..." statement is referring to. a universal statement includes the other group of words including all, none, every, etc which do not imply the existence of a group without the attribute referred to by the statement containing the all, every, etc.\n\nthe problem with universal statements involves a "universal generalization" about an entire set based on the existence of a few members which meet the criterion. example. "my dog is red, joes dog is red too, therefore all dogs are red."\n\nthe problem with the existential statements involve "existential instantiation" let me give you an example. "some dogs are red, i have a dog, therefore he is red". "if it rains the sidewalk is wet. the sidewalk is wet so therefore it rained." you see the problem with this line of reasoning\n\nin short \ndont conclude "all a is b" based on "a0 is b"\ndont conclude "a0 is b" based on "some a is b"
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"What is the meaning of life?" is a question many people ask themselves at some point during their lives. Some people believe that the meaning of life is one or more of the following:\n\nSurvival and temporal success\n\n...to accumulate wealth and increase social status \n...to compete or co-operate with others \n...to destroy others who harm you, or to practice nonviolence and nonresistance \n...to gain and exercise power \n...to leave a legacy, such as a work of art or a book \n...to produce offspring through sexual reproduction \n...to seek freedom, either physically, mentally or financially \n...to seek happiness and flourish, experience pleasure or celebrate \n...to survive, including the pursuit of immortality through scientific means (see life extension) \nWisdom and knowledge\n\n...to be without question, or to keep asking questions \n...to learn from one's own and others mistakes \n...to seek truth, knowledge, understanding, or wisdom \n...to explore, to expand beyond our frontiers \n...to try to understand the meaning of life \nEthical\n\n...to express compassion \n...to live in peace with each other, and in harmony with our natural environment (see utopia) \n...to give and receive love \n...to seek and acquire virtue, to live a virtuous life \n...to serve others, or do good deeds \n...to work for justice and democracy \nEsoteric/Other\n\n...to achieve a supernatural connection within the natural context \n...to achieve enlightenment and inner peace \n...to advance natural human evolution, or to contribute to the gene pool of the human race \n...to advance technological evolution, or to actively develop the future human \n...to become God, or God-like \n...to contribute to collective meaning ("we" or "us") without having individual meaning ("I" or "me") \n...to die, or become a martyr \n...to experience existence from an infinite number of perspectives in order to expand the consciousness of all there is (i.e. God) \n...to give life meaning (an example of antimetabole) \n...to produce useful structure in the universe over and above consumption (see net creativity) \n...to pursue a dream, vision, or destiny \n...to relate, connect, or achieve unity with others \n...to seek and find beauty \n...to simply live until one dies (there is no universal or celestial purpose, existence has no meaning beyond which one chooses to give it) \n...to worship, serve, or achieve union with God \n...to have a purpose
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In the mid-twentieth century, existentialism, a popular philosophy that had its roots in the 19th century works of Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche, developed in Europe, particularly in France and Germany. Kierkegaard, a Danish philosopher generally considered the "Father of Existentialism", argued that "truth is subjectivity", meaning that what is most important to an existing being are questions dealing with an individual's inner relationship to existence. Objective truths (e.g. mathematical truths) are important, but detached or observational modes of thought can never truly comprehend human experience. Nietzsche argued that human existence is the "will to power", a desire for excellence or greatness. Great individuals invent their own values and create the very terms under which they excel. Kierkegaard's knight of faith and Nietzsche's Übermensch are examples of those who define the nature of their own existence.\n\nDrawing on these ideas, existentialism rejects the notion of a human essence, instead trying to draw out the ability of each person to live authentically, which is to say that each person is able to define and determine his or her own life. The most prominent exponent of existentialism is Jean-Paul Sartre, particularly his expression of existentialism in Being and Nothingness (1943). Other influential existentialists include Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvoir, and Karl Jaspers.
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and what is the meaning of life
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Being and Nothingness: A Phenomenological Essay on Ontology (1943) is a philosophical treatise by Jean-Paul Sartre that is regarded as the beginning of the growth of existentialism in the 20th century. The French title is L'Être et le Néant. Its main purpose was to define the consciousness as transcendent. The work also sought to disprove George Berkeley's famous contention that "Esse Est Percipi", or "to be is to be perceived".\n\n"Sartre’s overriding concern in writing Being and Nothingness was to vindicate the fundamental freedom of the human being, against determinists of all stripes. It was for the sake of this freedom that he asserted the impotence of physical causality over human beings, that he analysed the place of nothingness within consciousness and showed how it intervened between the forces that act upon us and our actions." (p.111) Neil Levy - Sartre (One World Publications 2002)
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mag·nan·i·mous  (mg-nn-ms)\nadj.\n1. Courageously noble in mind and heart.\n2. Generous in forgiving; eschewing resentment or revenge; unselfish\n\n[From Latin magnanimus : magnus, great; see meg- in Indo-European roots + animus, soul, mind; see an- in Indo-European roots.]\n\nmag·nani·mous·ly adv.\nmag·nani·mous·ness n.
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Someone not of this Earth, A combination of Mahatma Gandhi, Mary Magdalene, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Mother Theresa, someone who believes in God but doesn't preach God, someone who is a good person and is not swayed by money, power, sex, or peer pressure. Someone who looks towards the interests of helping all those in need and is less concerned with those operating from a greedy egotistical point of view.\n\nhe/she would believe in morality and assisting humans to become more compassionate and empathetic of all other humans.\n\nDo you Know anyone like this? I hope he/she shows up soon.
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Without Xtianity, it is easy with Existentialism.\n\nFrom Sartres school of existentialism, you can get the most out of life by living it authentically.\n\nWe must realize that because no values exist outside ourselves, we as individuals in a community, become the source of values.  The process by which we create values is the process of choice.  When you realize the enormity of a situation, and still make the choice as best as you can, shouldering the consequences that may develop, is living with authenticity.\n\nThis allows you control over your actions at all times.  Now, by not making a choice, becasue you are afraid, is living inauthentically.  It is living a lie and is not a life worth living.\n\nYOu also have the choice not to choose and let fate takes its course.  This is living even below an inauthentic value level, becaus eyou will have no control of the consequences of your inaction.\n\nWhen we make a chice, Sartre says, we are taking on the greatest of responsibilities.\n\nSo, live existentially, live authentically.  Make you choices based on you own moral values, and not from a higher power (that is choosing not to choose).\n\nThat is how carpe diem should be done.  Make the right choices based on your power to choose.\n\nRemember, you are accountable for your actions.  You may want to be a CEO.  Are you going to school for that masters in management?  No?  Then you are living an inauthentic life based on a dream.  Find your niche in life, carve it, and set it in stone. You are the only one responsible for you.
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A hero is someone who puts themselves at risk to help another person. If you used your body to shield a child that someone was shooting at to protect the child you are a hero.\n\nA celebrity is someone famous in pop culture for making a movie, tv show, or being in a band.
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"What is the meaning of life?" is a question many people ask themselves at some point during their lives. Some people believe that the meaning of life is one or more of the following:\n\nSurvival and temporal success\n\n...to accumulate wealth and increase social status \n...to compete or co-operate with others \n...to destroy others who harm you, or to practice nonviolence and nonresistance \n...to gain and exercise power \n...to leave a legacy, such as a work of art or a book \n...to produce offspring through sexual reproduction \n...to seek freedom, either physically, mentally or financially \n...to seek happiness and flourish, experience pleasure or celebrate \n...to survive, including the pursuit of immortality through scientific means (see life extension) \nWisdom and knowledge\n\n...to be without question, or to keep asking questions \n...to learn from one's own and others' mistakes \n...to seek truth, knowledge, understanding, or wisdom \n...to explore, to expand beyond our frontiers \n...to try to discover and understand the meaning of life \nEthical\n\n...to express compassion \n...to live in peace with each other, and in harmony with our natural environment (see utopia) \n...to give and receive love \n...to seek and acquire virtue, to live a virtuous life \n...to serve others, or do good deeds \n...to work for justice and democracy \nEsoteric/Other\n\n...to achieve a supernatural connection within the natural context \n...to achieve enlightenment and inner peace \n...to advance natural human evolution, or to contribute to the gene pool of the human race \n...to advance technological evolution, or to actively develop the future human \n...to become God, or God-like \n...to contribute to collective meaning ("we" or "us") without having individual meaning ("I" or "me") \n...to die, or become a martyr \n...to experience existence from an infinite number of perspectives in order to expand the consciousness of all there is (i.e. God) \n...to find a purpose, a "reason" for living that hopefully raises the quality of one's experience of life, or even life in general \n...to give life meaning (an example of antimetabole, though this has little impact on its accuracy) \n...to produce useful structure in the universe over and above consumption (see net creativity) \n...to pursue a dream, vision, or destiny \n...to relate, connect, or achieve unity with others \n...to seek and find beauty \n...to simply live until one dies (there is no universal or celestial purpose, existence has no meaning beyond which one chooses to give it) \n...to worship, serve, or achieve union with God \n...to live and enjoy the passage of time \n...to own a megaphone
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I'm going to make a generalized statement and say someone who can take a potentially devastating situation and turn it into a positive example for others to strive for. Someone who, without question, accepts the responsibility of circumstances they helped to create and see them through to a successful conclusion.
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I think you are painting the Greek Heroes in a bit too fond of a light. While heroic, certainly, it was their belief that the only real immortality was to be remembered by those that come after you .... there was a very self centered side to it all. \n\nAll in all I would like to think a hero is a hero ... the only thing that has really changed is the things one does to become one.
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The meaning of life is to be and be you and be stiving towards the noblest of goals and to be in attainment of it and posses it, all the while remaining blameless.
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To live free or die and to pursue every goal or opportunity in your imagination
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What Can Make Lives Truly Meaningful\n\nFaith in God. When all else has been tried and fails, it is always there to bring victory over loneliness and make lives once empty filled with meaning. Many lives considered meaningful in a worldly way are actually meaningless. Why is this so? Because these end up dead, returned to dust, sunk into oblivion, having left no ripple on the seas of humanity, no footprint on the sands of time. It is as Ecclesiastes 9:5 says: “For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten.” Any sense of meaning attributed to lives lived apart from Jehovah’s purposes is empty vanity.\n\nLook at the starry heavens, feel the vastness of this dark vault overhead, and your sense of meaningfulness shrivels into nothing. You understand the psalmist David’s feelings when he wrote: “When I see your heavens, the works of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have prepared, what is mortal man that you keep him in mind, and the son of earthling man that you take care of him?\n\nIn the final analysis, then, how does a lonely person, or anyone else for that matter, infuse meaning into his life? By living his life in the fear of God, obeying God’s commandments. Only then can he fit into the purposes of God, the Creator of this vast universe,