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Short story: Existentialism, and Spiritualism

emptychair @innertalks (23734) • Australia 8 May 23

The existentialist philosopher, Darlech Deutovski, was discussing his ideas with a good friend, who he liked to run his own ideas by, to see if they would stand up to his friend's more spiritualised approach to life. He...

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Book Review Herman Melville Bartleby

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 12 Jun 19

Various collections and short story anthologies. A surprisingly short and rather sad existential tale by the author of the famous epic heavy reading tome, Moby Dick. Bartleby is about a well presented, respectable young man who...

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Do you believe in fate?

Katt Rocketman @PeachieMew (881) • Cleveland, Ohio 22 Dec 18

I do, but I don't believe it's inevitable. If you don't like what fate has in store for you, you can always just say no.

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Jean Paul Sartre Existentialism And Bad Faith

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 25 Feb 18

If not for Secular Humanism, (organized modern atheism) I might have become an Existentialist. It seems the only credible philosophy of atheism/agnosticism apart from Humanism itself. Existentialism began with Søren Kierkegaard...

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"I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world...

Colene @cpefley (1941) • San Jose, California 16 May 16

The last chapter of "The Stranger" is the hardest for me to read, as well as my favorite, because it has the most significance. I kept putting it down because the feelings I felt for a fictional character, with whom I couldn't...

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Questions about Existentialism

Oneironaut @_sketch_ (5742) • United States 22 Oct 11

Could anyone tell me more about existentialism? I'd like to learn more about Edmund Husserl and his phenomenological method and also about Martin Heidegger. What exactly is intentionality? I just want the basic jist of it all....

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Sartre' s Philosophy of Man

ubermensch @ubermensch (136) • Philippines 16 Sep 10

Sartre thinks that man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. He calls this subjectivity. Subjectivity for him means that man exists first and capable of realizing this. Man uses his "will" to make conscious decisions and...

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Sartre's Existentialism

ubermensch @ubermensch (136) • Philippines 16 Sep 10

Existentialism, a nineteenth- and twentieth philosophical movement that stresses the radical extent of human freedom and attempt to deal seriously with its consequences for people's day to day lives, is the tradition most...

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If the internet had a soul, would you still use it?

LoSouLyricist @LoSouLyricist (125) • United States 23 Jan 10

I don't mean artificial intelligence, but if the synergy of composite material and exchange of coalescing energy that creates the realm of knowledge and motion we call the internet was likened to a dreamscape. The thoughts of the...

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Have you ever been frustrated realizing that we can't be other people?

johnrapp @johnrapp (27) • United States 21 May 09

I used to get really freaked out when I thought about how weird it is to be a single person your whole life. I'll be John Rapp the entire time I'm on this planet. It's just really weird that we can't transfer bodies with other...

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Existentialism

lpsanche @lpsanche (208) • United States 24 Feb 07

We live in a world full of ideas and theories. Some of them we can't explain... some of them we tried to understand but makes it really hard. My question is Does existensialism really exist? do you really believe in it? do you...

Kafka's Metamorphisis

chromecowgirl37 @chromecowgirl37 (283) • United States 24 Jan 07

I recently started reading Franz Kafka's The Metamorphisis for the second time around. I first read it in highschool and fell in love with the book. I found out then I was a fan of existentialism. Until recently I considered...

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Does God Exists? If he does is he indifferent?

Soulplay81 @Soulplay81 (8) • Philippines 11 Jan 07

An deus sit, Latin for Does God Exists? whatever you call Him, God, Allah, Buddha, Gaia, The Son of God and other's. Does he exists? Does he, are we cosmically created by higher being? if he does not then where do we come...

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Philosophy Discussion - Existentialism - Please read the statement below

Withoutwings @Withoutwings (6992) • United States 1 Dec 06

and give me your thoughts on what it means. "How can this consciousness I have of my own existence be related to my existence, since it obviously is NOT my existense?" - Jaques Salvan (from "TO BE AND NOT TO BE an analysis of...

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existentialism

mykmalice @mykmalice (91) • United States 24 Sep 06

atheistic or christian existentialism? which do you agree with.