I read this book for the first time this year and found it profound.
You summarized it well here.
A quote I wrote down:
"I told the men that they must not lose hope but should keep their courage in the certainty that the hopelessness of our struggle did not detract from his dignity and its meaning. I said that someone looks down on each of us in difficult hours and he would not expect us to disappoint him. He would hope to find us suffering, proudly - not miserably - knowing how to die.
And finally, I spoke of our sacrifice, which had meaning in every case. It was in the nature of the sacrifice that it should appear to be pointless in the normal world, the world of material success. But in reality, our sacrifice did have a meaning."
Great article here--thanks for writing. I talk about Frankl and his ideas of finding meaning in love and work in one of my literature courses if anyone is interested: How to Find Meaning in the Meaningless: The Things They Carried and Existentialist Philosophy (https://www.english-champion.com/the-things-they-carried-and-existential-philosophy)
Your extraordinary ability to clarify1 accurately, in my view, much.
T
I find Viktor Frankl's ideasmof fonding meang WHERE there IS NO MEANING as embodied throughout his later writings, ie, OPTIMISTIC NIHILISM, to continue to be a greatb source of understanding, (personally comforting), in fact, it puts just one more burden (ultimately source of guilt) of inadequacy in the suffering.
Same with Abraham Maslow's fanastical suggestion that allare capable o 1.1f Self Actualize. The cruel evangelical mantra that "Jesus is all I Need." CS Lewis. .whose works, (except for allegories) ive read, profitted from many times wwas very clear in his A GRI.EF OBSERVED that Gods knowlege of God's !presence was never felt by him when he actually in depths of gri-eving i re-read, reconsidered this during the horrors of my existence. I appreciatevdeeply tuat there are still a group of you guys that have not thown out the possibility that rationality m8ght havevsomething to offer us. Im n9t an expert 9n vokt9r frankl, but ive read enough that i know he did not present his ideas in the simplistic manner that the Toxically positve .
I read this book for the first time this year and found it profound.
You summarized it well here.
A quote I wrote down:
"I told the men that they must not lose hope but should keep their courage in the certainty that the hopelessness of our struggle did not detract from his dignity and its meaning. I said that someone looks down on each of us in difficult hours and he would not expect us to disappoint him. He would hope to find us suffering, proudly - not miserably - knowing how to die.
And finally, I spoke of our sacrifice, which had meaning in every case. It was in the nature of the sacrifice that it should appear to be pointless in the normal world, the world of material success. But in reality, our sacrifice did have a meaning."
Amen.
And: well done, Frankyl.
Great article here--thanks for writing. I talk about Frankl and his ideas of finding meaning in love and work in one of my literature courses if anyone is interested: How to Find Meaning in the Meaningless: The Things They Carried and Existentialist Philosophy (https://www.english-champion.com/the-things-they-carried-and-existential-philosophy)
I appreciate your scholarship.
Your extraordinary ability to clarify1 accurately, in my view, much.
T
I find Viktor Frankl's ideasmof fonding meang WHERE there IS NO MEANING as embodied throughout his later writings, ie, OPTIMISTIC NIHILISM, to continue to be a greatb source of understanding, (personally comforting), in fact, it puts just one more burden (ultimately source of guilt) of inadequacy in the suffering.
Same with Abraham Maslow's fanastical suggestion that allare capable o 1.1f Self Actualize. The cruel evangelical mantra that "Jesus is all I Need." CS Lewis. .whose works, (except for allegories) ive read, profitted from many times wwas very clear in his A GRI.EF OBSERVED that Gods knowlege of God's !presence was never felt by him when he actually in depths of gri-eving i re-read, reconsidered this during the horrors of my existence. I appreciatevdeeply tuat there are still a group of you guys that have not thown out the possibility that rationality m8ght havevsomething to offer us. Im n9t an expert 9n vokt9r frankl, but ive read enough that i know he did not present his ideas in the simplistic manner that the Toxically positve .