they lacked the knowledge of the cosmos of the modern day — SteveMinjares
It just seems to me the teachings revolve around fear, fear of losing ones own individuality and fear of mortality and fears of there own conscious awareness. Since I personally don’t carry those fears and struggles and I find the teachings hard to rationalize. — SteveMinjares
To each there own I guess... — SteveMinjares
In the utmost respectful way possible I find Søren Kierkegaard, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jean-Paul Sartre, Friedrich Nietzsche philosophy teaching in my personal opinion outdated. It was probably more applicable to that generation and culture of there time. — SteveMinjares
Existentialism seems illogical and borderline to following the same principle thinking which you would find in conventional religious belief just omitting God from the picture. — SteveMinjares
To each there own I guess. — SteveMinjares
Tell us, what do you think existentialism is? What are the actual tenets you find so unappealing? You seem to think it has something to do with meaning, but what? — Banno
Completely agree with your argument, but why do you think existentialism is not a school or theory? — javi2541997
I feel they they lacked the knowledge of the cosmos of the modern day. I doubt that if they were alive today would maintain there philosophical convictions if they knew then what we know now about the Universe — SteveMinjares
In the utmost respectful way possible I find Søren Kierkegaard, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jean-Paul Sartre, Friedrich Nietzsche philosophy teaching in my personal opinion outdated. It was probably more applicable to that generation and culture of there time. — SteveMinjares
Hegel was the first and founding existentialist. — Gary M Washburn
Was around long, long before the 20th century, so not paradigmatic movement of the 20th C. Jazz maybe. — Janus
Few of you have actually bothered to read any existentialist texts, have you. — Banno
I suspect that the first music made by early humans was improv. — Tom Storm
Try Sartre's two tracts on imagination. You cannot distinguish Husserl's intentional object from the intentional act, image from imagining. — Gary M Washburn
Language is a dynamic of familiarization, not information or definition. It's opposite is not gaps in knowledge, but a wholesale loss of familiarity, or alienation. Alienation is the bane of the current consensus, and passing it off with a glib or facile "illogical" is just not gonna cut it. — Gary M Washburn
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