Buddhism 4 noble truths 8 fold path Bamboo, flexible but very strong. Surrendering, resisting is bad, giving is is the right way
Kierkegaard Subjective truth over objective Rejected secular thinking Abstraction Story of Abraham Inauthentic and authentic Once a choice is made, it rules out all other choices. Truth as subjectivity – How am I to exist Denied the value of objective knowledge, which he referrs to as an imperative of understanding – cannot account for its existential quality The difference between Christian man and regular man objectivily is nothing, however subjectively there is difference. Objective understanding cannot reveal truth; it cannot give Kierkegaard or any existing individual reasons to live; it cannot answer the most importantant question; what am I to do? The idea for which I can live and die- cannot be provided by objective, scientific, or philosophical or theologian arguments.
Nietzsche – God is dead Underman / overman resentment / master morality Attacted to Schopenhauer ‘will to power' rejection of his intellectual father. Perspectivism