Frankly Existential

Thoughts of Frank Schwantner

Photo taken and edited by Mary Mikowski

Come along with me on the journey that is philosophy, aiming to discover the truth of the world and our place in it.

Over the course of the past couple years I have become increasingly interested with the study of philosophy. I have spent most of my free time reading the works of many thinkers from Plato to Kant to Camus trying to find the proper guide to life. Shortly after, I had the realization that I truly know nothing (thanks to Plato and Descartes). I think a lot and think there are things that I know, but I always question. The posts you will see on here will be my publicized mind in a sense. You will get to see how I string my thoughts together and how they tend to end far from where they began. I hope you find it interesting, perhaps learning something along the way.

“the unexamined life is not worth living” -socrates

This simple Socrates quote provides a foundation for the purpose of this page, that is, we should dedicate time for adequate study of ourselves, our thoughts, and our actions, to better understand why we act the way we do, if it is how we should act and, if not, what to be done differently. On this platform I will specifically be relating this idea primarily to myself in an effort to better myself.

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