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During the last meeting of class we were led through a scattered discussion of the various philosophers and philosophies discussed throughout the year. If we are to find a common problem that offers any sort of unity to what we have been studying, it must be that each philosopher wants to discover how to go about experiencing reality. Philosophers such as Pierce, Tolstoy, Camus, Bergson, Russell, and Sartre have attempted to define an unconditional experience with varying degrees of success. To appreciate an experience unconditionally, it must be shorn of that which is sensed and that which is opined. Pierce, perhaps unknowingly offering insult to Tolstoy, proposed that people adopt beliefs as an escape from their inability to understand the world. Tolstoy, in religious fervor, determined that, because one believes in God, there is no need to fear the confusing world. Both philosophers believed that humans were neither diligent nor intelligent enough to interpret reality and react appropriately so they responded with a rather simple solution. To live without routines and values and to have pure experience, we must live spontaneously. Anything that restricts our spontaneity – reason, habit, and monotony – must be di