Jan 6, 2023 · Existentialism has had a profound impact on how philosophers conceptualize and understand the human condition, with rich accounts of affectivity and embodiment, facticity (or …

Jan 31, 2025 · Philosophy emerges in the first beginning as responding to a change in the background practices of the early Greek world—namely, the emergence of a uniform style of …

Oct 27, 2011 · In his book-length essay, The Myth of Sisyphus, Camus presents a philosophy that contests philosophy itself. This essay belongs squarely in the philosophical tradition of …

Aug 17, 2004 · She is best known for her trailblazing work in feminist philosophy, The Second Sex (1949), but her original contributions to existentialism and phenomenology can be found …

Mar 26, 2022 · Like many of his generation, Sartre lived through a series of major cultural and historical events that his existential philosophy responded to and attempted to shape.

May 22, 2023 · This idea is familiar from existentialist thinkers such as Sartre, and we can thereby understand why Kierkegaard is often described as the “father of existentialism” (however …

As Jaspers uses the term, Existenz corresponds most closely to what existential philosophers typically call authentic existence, while what they refer to as “inauthentic existence” does not …

Mar 17, 2017 · Nietzsche frequently criticizes “dogmatic” philosophers for ignoring the perspectival limitations on their theorizing, but as we saw, he simultaneously holds that the …

Oct 10, 2012 · This section examined the thesis that seemingly singular existential and negative existential sentences are really general existentials, which are then treated as ascribing the …

Mar 29, 2025 · “Existentialism,” he says, “is the terminus of a decadence that in philosophy begins when thought lacks God and turns to itself” (1950). Such egoism is at the heart of …