Here is an extract from the 'Historical Introduction' by Reidar Thomte, to the Princeton edition of "The Concept of Anxiety" by Soren Kierkegaard. ~ The...
The Secret People Smile at us, pay us, pass us, but do not quite forget. For we are the people of England, that never have spoken yet. There is many a fat...
I will leave it up to you to decide which is more proper to describe a set of people that seem in the attendance. They want to ban things, they want to make...
Why would one teach or defend existentialism? I gave it up years ago. If you can`t get it or don`t want to get it then it is your loss. It is your money...
What if I flipped and became a fierce and pious warrior for some deity. I do not think much would change. If , however all the believers flopped ,the...
Most people who exercise their mind in the endeavor of philosophy do so by constructing 'meaning' (and by the use of language); and this suggest that the very...
Dear All What is absurdism, based on Camus', Kierkegaard's, Sartre's, and Ionesco's undrestanding from the term. If someone ask us this question, how could we...
Hi everyone, Hope this is ok to post here... You can see a list of my groups on Grouply at the link below. Maybe you'll find some you want to join. J Here's...
Kierkegaard & The Existent Kierkegaard proposed the notion that truth lies in subjectivity; that true existence is achieved by intensity of feeling. He said he...
I read the first chapter of The Plague last night. It is a good read and flows very well in the translation. Someone else on this list mentioned that they had...
If Camus wondered if there would be morals after WW2, he was not the first to consider the rules after cataclysmic conflict. Winners make rules as in deadly...
Susan and I are from the poorest region of America, which is Central California. Most people don't quite believe that, so here is the press release from...
In Merleau-Ponty's primacy of perception, he describes the function of the body. He states that the theory of the body is the theory of perception. also he...
In what does phenomenology consists in the philosophy of Husserl? what are the repercussion of such notion in the actual world of men and women? How is this...
I Need some in depth explanation of the theory of Merleau-Ponty's on the primacy of perception. Does this theory mean, that we can never get to anything unless...
"all my life", I have expressed existentialist ideas since my early twenties. I consider it an equivalency to the age of reason. As CS followed, something...
There is much more to concern ourselves that is much more immediate than existential angst. If you hav`nt figured out that when your dead you are gone then...
Hello everyone I am a life long existentialist who has been lurking a bit, and enjoying the messages. I am wondering if anyone has read" Being and Nothingness"...
Woolsey says "they" were just stupid to think the Iraqies wouldn't do what our First Nations failed to do, unite. El Sadr wants to tell us all how to wipe our...
Louise, Thank you for your reply. You write: "As I hope I made clear, this is my great concern, that treasured and unique cultural ways disappear, if we are...
As I have already implied, there is so much that I don't understand, about how 'normal' people view the world, how they relate to the media universe, what...
I just wanted to bring everyones attention to a new book called "Sex and Philosophy" which explores de Beauvoir's role in "Sarte's" philosophical acheivements....
Mary, Having been so rude to you in this my latest intemperate outburst, I have taken it into my head, remembering past times, and the mysteries of the Blue...
Wondered if a specifically-referenced clarification on the subject of race would prove to be of any use. After all, the local controversy in which I was...
Apologies for incoherence, for unpleasantness, and for excessive posting. I have prepared, in the last couple of hours, a reasoned exposition, and do not...
