Metadata
- Author: Alexis Shotwell
- Full Title:: We Can Live Well, Even Though We Don’t Have a Higher Purpose
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- URL:: https://psyche.co/ideas/we-can-live-well-even-though-we-dont-have-a-higher-purpose?utm_source=rss-feed
- Read date:: 2025-05-16
Highlights
Le Guin offers a way to choose, act and do without aiming for control. Her work is a model for responding to existentially demanding conditions. She thinks we should not give up on responsibility, even as we jettison the idea that our personal actions control the fate of the world. (View Highlight)
Given this situation and these limitations, what should we do with our life? If we follow Le Guin, we too start to ask how a human being should live well. (View Highlight)
For Le Guin, there is something wrong with attempting to step outside the world as though we were not part of it. Thinking that our human purpose on this Earth is to do things, change things, and run things requires this sense of separation, but also involves the posture towards the world that we should have mastery of it. (View Highlight)