Potential Report on Stoicism vs Existentialism
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That's mostly what I'm asking. They are two subjects that interest me and I'm trying to find a way to compare them. E.g, their different perspectives on morality and duty. But my question has to be very specific.Fooloso4 wrote:Why do you want to compare them? Is there some commonality or difference that you see that led you to think about comparing them?
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What do you find of interest in stoicism and existentialism, or perhaps more specifically Marcus Aurelius, Sartre, and Camus?
It is not clear how much you already know about these topics or authors. You might start with some of the reputable online philosophy sources (http://www.iep.utm.edu/, https://plato.stanford.edu/) for general descriptions, and perhaps you can find some quotes from the authors to use as a jumping off place.
Since figuring out what you want to write about is often the most difficult part, you might put that aside and start by identifying things they say that you find interesting and make a list. Once you have a few of them a topic might emerge. If you are still stuck, I always recommend writing as a way of thinking. Start by explaining to an imaginary reader why you have chosen to write about these things and why the reader might be interested in reading what you have to say. Don't think and then write. Think by writing. You might be able to use some of this in the paper but don't write with that purpose in mind.
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Sorry, I am not all that familiar with ancient Latin; The language I used was modern Azerbaijani on airplane wing metal fatigue and comparable probable losses in human lives when I wrote my thesis in Actuarial Studies.
The most interesting case I covered was when a dog bit onto the wing of an airplane, and was stuck on it due to the air differential pressure of the plane in flight. (The dog was on the part of the wing facing the direction of travel). The increased coefficients in the terms of the differential equations describing the air drag alone were staggering. I was off in my calculations by one percent of one thousands of a percent, due to rounding errors, calculations carried to seven significant digits throughout, and this was still large enough to have caused the difference in lives of 530 souls ("to be or not to be"), aboard on a TU-204 type airplane by Topol.
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