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RE: The Most Important Question in Philosophy - Part 2 of ?

in #writing7 years ago

You know, I've never read a lot of Austrian Economics or anything about Logotherapy (myself being a proponent of labor theories and psychoanalysis), but I certainly appreciate this little primer; it harkens me further towards my recent experiment in bubble bursting, my own of course.

It's interesting how different traditions deal with the death drive. I like Emil Cioran and his 1973 work, The Trouble With Being Born as a continuation of Camus' project.

I look forward to reading the rest of your work.

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Interesting. I think of labor theories and the death drive as historical ideas rather than contemporary considerations. I like Joseph Breuer significantly more than Freud. The labor theory is what limited Adam Smith, and his best work was on moral sentiments. Marx has almost everything wrong except alienation in some work environments, but labor theory is also one of those. I developed my own psychological model combining some of the basic insights of Breuer and Perceptual Control Theory, which is the best explanatory psychology I've ever found.