Existentialist Thinkers and Thought
Author | : Frederick Patka |
Publisher | : New York : Philosophical Library |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Existentialism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Frederick Patka |
Publisher | : New York : Philosophical Library |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Existentialism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Harold John Blackham |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2012-11-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1134964773 |
Includes summary but substantial accounts of the thought of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Jaspers, Marcel, Heidegger and Sartre, and a concluding essay that attempts to interpret the whole Existentialist movement.
Author | : Christine Daigle |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0773531386 |
Twentieth-century existential thinkers, critical of traditional, overly rationalistic approaches to ethics, sought to provide a better account of what it means to be human in the world. They articulated ethical views that respected the individual yet were fundamentally concerned with the Other and the ethical value of an authentic life. Their philosophy has often been dismissed as unsuccessful. Through examination of the thought of eight key figures in existentialism - Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Arendt, Camus, Sartre, Beauvoir, and Merleau-Ponty - this collection demonstrates that such dismissals are unfounded. Contributors tackle the difficulties raised by an existentialist ethics and show how each thinker successfully elaborated an ethics that provides a viable alternative to traditional ethical views.
Author | : Christine Daigle |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2006-10-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0773585753 |
Twentieth-century existential thinkers, critical of traditional, overly rationalistic approaches to ethics, sought to provide a better account of what it means to be human in the world. They articulated ethical views that respected the individual yet were fundamentally concerned with the Other and the ethical value of an authentic life. Their philosophy has often been dismissed as unsuccessful.
Author | : Thomas Gallagher |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Existentialism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Frederick Patka |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1962 |
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ISBN | : 9780802212856 |
Author | : K. Guru Dutt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Existentialism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Frederick Patka |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei |
Publisher | : GUIDES TO THE GOOD LIFE SERIES |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2020-10-22 |
Genre | : Existentialism |
ISBN | : 0190913657 |
"The fact that you have picked up a book like this one and have begun to read it suggests that you strive for a fulfilling life. Presumably you aim, like many people do, to live as well and as meaningfully as possible, well aware that you have only one life, and that it is finite. Each day you press forward with no clear path signposted just for you. Your existence comes with no set of instructions what exactly to do with it. You will be well aware, perhaps with some anxiety, that only you can make some crucial decisions which will shape your existence, determine how your one life will play out. Existential philosophy begins by thinking from the standpoint of an individual concretely existing, wondering how to make sense of this existence. This may be anything but straightforward. In a busy, overcrowded world, there will be distractions everywhere from any goal you might try to keep in mind. At times you may not know which goals to strive for. Difficulties will arise. Some demands upon you will conflict with others, and responsibilities may come to feel relentless. Perhaps they do right now. You may come to wonder what this life is all about, and sometimes even despair at the lack of an answer. A sudden loss or change can render exigent otherwise merely nagging uncertainties. All of these concerns are the stuff of existential philosophy. If philosophy can be applied to spiritual ailments, existentialism is one of the most versatile prescriptions. Most people at some point in their lives will experience moments of suffering that have an existential cast. This is suffering that impacts your sense of self, making you wonder who you really are or ought to be, making you wonder about the purpose of your existence. The works of existentialist philosophers elaborate on such phenomena as despair, anxiety, dread, angst, forlornness, the tragic, the absurd, nothingness, being-towards-death, ennui, oppression, and inauthenticity. While not solving such human difficulties, existentialism recognizes and studies them in philosophical terms. Indeed, when a crisis is diagnosed as 'existential,' it is salvaged from the indignity of mere pain, and recognized as bearing what the Danish philosopher S2ren Kierkegaard called a 'subjective truth.' The remedy of existential thinking comes in the form of relating individual struggles to a human condition understood as universal, and of illuminating the freedom and responsibility, or the creativity, with which they can be tackled"
Author | : Haim Gordon |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 672 |
Release | : 2013-10-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1135948011 |
Existentialism, as a philosophy, gained prominence after World War II. Instead of focusing upon a particular aspect of human existence, existentialists argued that our focus must be upon the whole being as he/she exists in the world. Rebelling against the rationalism of such philosophers as Descartes and Hegel, existentialists reject the emphasis placed on man as primarily a thinking being. Freedom is central to human existence, and human relations and encounters cannot be reduced simply to "thinking." This Dictionary provides--through alphabetically arranged entries--overviews of the various tenets, philosophers, and writers of existentialism, and of those writers/philosophers who, in retrospect, seem to existentialists to espouse their philosophy: Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Dostoyevski, et al.