Glossary of Philosophical Terms

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Eudaimonia

Human flourishing or well-being; the highest human good according to Aristotle, achieved through a life of virtue and reason.

Ethics Aristotle

Existence Precedes Essence

Sartre's principle that humans have no predetermined nature; we create ourselves through our choices and actions.

Existentialism Jean-Paul Sartre
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Coffee Drinker & Storyteller

I live among shadows and broken certainties. I speak little, I think too much. Each text is a failed attempt to translate what I can't even fully feel.

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"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman."

— Simone de Beauvoir

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