The Reasonable Now: Existentialism for the 21st Century

By Paul Neiman and Matt Borgert-Spaniol

Our feelings about the most essential elements of human experience - home, friendship, love, identity, and death - exist only in the present moment, Right Now, while we are experiencing them. It is only when these feelings vanish into the past, where they exist only in our memories, that we become aware of how much we expected them to persist into the future. We want home to be a place we can always return to, true friends to be people we can always count on, and love must be forever or not at all! This desire for permanence, and the difficulty in acknowledging change, is embedded into most philosophical concepts of home, friendship, love, identity, and death. The Reasonable Now focuses on the relevant past and the predictable future, to help us more authentically understand the present. In doing so, it offers a philosophical critique of our current understandings, as well as a way to live in the Reasonable Now that empowers us to make authentic choices about our lives. Each chapter uses personal reflections to stimulate readers to think about what living in the Reasonable Now means for their own lives, and to ground the concepts of home, friendship, love, identity, and death in real life experiences.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0D7J4MTBF
• ISBN13: 9798328599153
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"