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Workshop # 26, Consciousness and Absence, Series 10, (S8,17)

This event begins 7.30 pm S'pore & WA time, 12.30 pm UK, 7.30 am NY.

# Are Hegel’s & Sartre’s concepts of Being & Nothingness just nascent insights?

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The workshops include of a prior presentation of the topic by myself on YouTube. The meeting itself consists of a brief review of the topic followed by questions and discussion. The weekly topic is posted a week before the event, together with a suggested reading from my work The Pursuit of Value, available through Amazon Books or myself. Transcripts of the Youtube presentation are available by email.

THIS WEEK: The idea of non-being, nothingness or absence is discussed by such thinkers as Hegel and Sartre. Schopenhauer’s view that it is better not to exist seems to be its most extreme expression. Yet Hegel and Sartre view nothingness as an integral aspect of existence, yet with different interpretations — in cosmology and consciousness — respectively. If non-being or nothingness is an inescapable aspect of consciousness, what does this mean for human life? Can ‘nothingness’ be exploited as a means of resolving some of the fundamental problems of life like finitude and death? Reading: The Pursuit of Value, Ch.6, Scn. x.