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A loose title covering : the individual, the experience of choice, and the absence of rational understanding of the universe with a consequent dread or sense of absurdity in human life.
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Who are some anti-existentialist philosophers and what were there arguments against it?
Although he is usually considered an existentialist, (the later) Heidegger is against Sartre's claim that existence precedes essence in his Letter on Humanism:
Sartre expresses the basic tent of existentialism … In his earlier Being and Time, which inspired Sartre's existentialism, Heidegger says the essence (Wesen) of Dasein is existence, but he means something different with 'Wesen' (verbally, i.e. the way …
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What is the difference between essential and existential ontology?
Sartrian existentialism
Sartrian existentialism says traditional philosophy is primarily preoccupied with essences (think of Plato's ideas, Aristoteles' eidos/morphe, Medieval essentia, Kant's Vorstellung … Heidegger against existentialism
When existentialism became popular, Heidegger distanced himself from it, because from him the existentialist concept of 'existence' is still derived to the metaphysical …
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What does Nietzsche mean by the intellectual costs that "For" and "Against" incur?
The original German reads: "Du solltest Gewalt über dein Für und Wider bekommen". The capitalization in German is required, so in English it is an interpretation of the translator. 'das Für und Wider …
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Is Nietzsche saying here that agnostics admire the unintelligible?
Agnostics. Agnostics assert certain claims cannot be know to be true or false. Nietzsche interprets this as admiring the unknown, the unintelligible. The unintelligible is not a person, not a who. Th …
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