What Is Existentialism in Simple Terms? Here’s a contradiction. The Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) developed the notion of existentialism, which, at its core, denies the existence of God. Yet, Søren Kierkegaard was a deeply religious man. However, it was the atheist Fre...
If up until this point you weren’t sure how the band Carcass feels about religion, Embodiment states it completely and in no uncertain terms. The song is an outright renunciation of organized religion, Christianity in particular. The lyrics bubble with hatred and scorn for the self-annihilating...
Kafka does not conceive of the transcendental universe he seeks to describe in its paradoxical and noncommunicable terms; instead, he sets to describing it rationally and, therefore, inadequately. It is as if he were forced to explain something which he himself does not understand — nor is ...
Ethics - Rationalism, Existentialism, Nietzsche: If Hobbes is to be regarded as the first of a distinctively British philosophical tradition, the Dutch-Jewish philosopher Benedict de Spinoza (1632–77) appropriately occupies the same position in continen
In English you end up with a lot of hyphenated phrases.“Being-in-the-World” is one of the relatively simple ones, it’s just got three hyphens in it. Having said that, yes, he does coin a lot of terms, and in reading Heidegger you have to grapple with them. You can’t ...
engaging in endless thought experiments and neglecting life. Yet even simple thinking about life is already “second nature.” In other words: nowhere in transcendental idealism is the process of producing knowledge and/or information colored as negatively as the encroaching of the Pale in Disco Ely...
GIRL IN MUSEUM:It restates the negativeness of the universe, the hideous lonely emptiness of existence, nothingness, the predicament of man forced to live in a barren, godless eternity, like a tiny flame flickering in an immense void, with nothing but waste, horror, and degradation, forming ...
他人的存在与自我的自由——对《夜访吸血鬼》的萨特存在主义解读-the existence of others and freedom of self —— sartres existentialism interpretation of the night visit to vampires.docx,摘要吸血鬼是西方文化和文学,尤其是哥特小说中最具生命力和最受欢迎的人物
On April 10, Cory Spangenberg hits a ball foul, and it rolls fair. Maybe it was simple physics; the spin on the ball pulled it rightward. Maybe it was propelled by a subtle divot in the dirt. Or maybethe invisible particlesholding the galaxy together that may or may not...
oppose Kierkegaard's transcendental mysticism, although it might be too harsh to argue that he gave up all faith in the "indestructible nature" of the universe, as he called it. Perhaps this is what Kafka means when he says, "One cannot say that we are lacking faith. The simple fact in...