The "John Doe" Posts No. 4 - Sloth: The Philosophers’ Guide to Ways in Which To Prioritize Your Life

Jan 31, 2010

The Epicurean Way: Do those things which bring you most pleasure.

The Stoic Way: Do those things which need to be done and suck it up.

The Cartesian Way: Do those things which can not be thought or imagined away.

The Machiavellian Way: Do over others before they do over you.

The Positivist Way: Let Task 1 = x, and Task 2 = y, if x then y.

The Nietzschean Way: Do whatever the hell you want to.

The Augustinian Way: Do whatever the hell you want to, but God is right to punish you for it.

The Hobbesian Way: Do whatever the hell you want to, but your leader is right to punish you for it.

The Existentialist Way: Do whatever the hell you want to, but it doesn’t mean anything.

The Zen Way: Do and not do - it’s not about the doing at all.

The Taoist Way: The Way is neither doing or not doing.

The Heideggerian Way: Who is doing what now?

The Postmodernist Way: Doing is so last millennium.

The Skeptics’ Way: Find a reason not to do anything.