Essays and Aphorisms on the Higher Man
Author
Emile Benoit
Publisher
Eudaimon Press
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Essays and Aphorisms on the Higher Man is primarily a work of moral, cultural, and religious criticism which attempts to find meaning in a world that seems completely devoid of it, and in a manner which relies on revelatory aphorisms rather than narrative deduction to make its argument. An “aphorism” is merely a brief statement of truth or wisdom (Ben Franklin, Emerson, and Montaigne employed them often) and Benoit uses the device as a means to break through the far too rational and overly scientific perspectives that have come to dominate our understanding of the world. He urges, instead, that we develop an “artistic perspective” of the universe wherein we might achieve the consciousness of the “higher man.” We all have been searching for meaning in our lives for as long as we have been alive. Yet, philosophy, religion, art, and politics have failed to provide us with answers to our many questions about our own personal existence. They’ve become, instead, institutions for profit, dogmatism, entertainment, or petty equivocation. Benoit addresses the issues that used to be of utmost importance to scholars and laymen alike: The answer to the question of how we should best live our lives.
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