Questions tagged [existentialism]
A loose title covering : the individual, the experience of choice, and the absence of rational understanding of the universe with a consequent dread or sense of absurdity in human life.
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Das Ziel für Menschen (The goal for mankind) [duplicate]
Ich bin in Vietnam, und einmal stellte ich mir Fragen zu meinem Studium.
Ich möchte Sozialwissenschaften studieren, aber eine Freundin sagte mir, dass das nutzlos sei.
Dann dachte ich darüber nach: ...
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Is self deception the only way to get out of internal contradictions if the contradictions are unsolvable? what are some other methods one can use [closed]
I have a question regarding personal philosophy. If existential truth requires me to see people as they are - contradictory, inconsistent, and often in bad faith - and this recognition destroys my ...
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In (feminist) ethics of care, in what way is being cared for a freedom?
In (feminist) ethics of care, in what way is being cared for a freedom? Suppose I care for my ill friend, presumably she is free to reject my concern, in a way I am arguably not free to neglect, in ...
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"It hurts when you have to stay away from what the heart desires." [closed]
Yet sometimes what the heart desires isn't what truly benefits you.
And while abstaining from what the heart wants, one suffers just as much as if one didn't stay away.
A dilemma where both premises ...
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What role does “knighthood” play in Kierkegaard’s knights “of faith” and “of infinite resignation”?
In Fear and Trembling (reading from the Hong/Hong translation), we see Kierkegaard establish the concepts of the “knight of faith” and the preceding “knight of infinite resignation”; I’m going to ...
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Myth of Sisyphus : suicide & consent to the absurd
I have trouble understanding Camus' reasoning and in particular what he means by "to accept the absurd".
Basically, he wants to examine if the absence of meaning to life leads logically to ...
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Why is there an imperative by Camus to continuously confront the Absurd?
I legitimately don't understand Camus' argument against suicide.
Life is absurd (meaningless but humans seek meaning). - Yes!
Suicide is an attempt to escape the absurd. - Yes!
Escaping the absurd ...
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What thinking has there been on the view of meaning and purpose in life as just social instincts produced by evolution? [closed]
The idea is that the instincts people have for meaning/purpose evolved in order to get people to behave in ways that got them some sort of social status within the tribe. Such that what you can find ...
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Could one choose/decide not to have (or to give up their) free will?
The question is inspired in part by Sartre's writing in "Being and Nothingness" [Hazel E. Barnes's 1957 translation, my highlights], specifically
I am condemned to exist forever beyond my ...
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Is there something inauthentic about committed integrity?
How does committed integrity mean having already made up my mind, when faced with challenges, which seems inauthentic?
A person is subject to many conflicting desires. If one simply acted
at each ...
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Existentialism and the Problems of Free Will and Aristotle’s Prime Mover
Existentialism is duty bound to a belief in free will. The problem of free will being that it struggles to accommodate determined aspects of nature, as well as ignoring Aristotle’s argument for a ...
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Has our understanding of genetics damaged existentialism?
How badly did the discovery of DNA and genetics undermine Sartre’s idea of existence preceding essence?
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What is considered a counter argument to Wittgenstein's early ideas of the uselessness of Existential questions and thoughts due to illogical nature?
what would be a counter argument to this (probably regarded as logical positivist) perspective on the meaning of life suggesting that the question itself is meaningless, and therefore, there's no ...
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How to know which ideology / school of thought is the "correct" one? (or is it even possible to know in the first place?) [closed]
Since I was 14, I’ve held pretty consistent political, religious, and philosophical views. I never seriously questioned my beliefs and was sure that everything I believed in was more or less correct. ...
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The difference between "will" and "intent"
(Note: I am less experienced, both on this SE and in terms of philosophy, and so I welcome any corrections or post edits, and am not offended by overexplaining).
So far, I have read primarily "...
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