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Jungle Boots

PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 1:16 pm


i find existentialism incredibly uplifting, the concept that divine exists, and not only do we experience it, but are part of it all together is incredible.

i havent read a whole lot of Nietzsche, just a bit of Zarathustra, but i have read and discussed some other existentialist philosophers and find it very upligting, very positive. you have to look at it in the right light though.
PostPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 3:32 am


I absolutely adore Nietzsche.

I like the idea of existentialism because it makes a lot more sense to me than the idea of fate or the idea that our lives are controlled by some higher power.. However I don't think the idea that what happens to you is always up to you is very accurate.

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Khalida Nyoka

PostPosted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 11:04 am


Seeing as the thread is about existentialism and not Nihilism, I'll be going away from good ol' Friedrich.

If you want a crash course, and likely a headache, then I'd suggest picking up the majority of Martin Heidegger's works (his most famous is titled "Being in Time" if I remember correctly).

Existentialism just is, in my opinion. Nothing more than a collection of perspectives on life, and a gaggle of authors who discuss it. That, of course, is merely a description of what forms existentialism. Truth be told, it has a wide variety of possibilities for what it can truly be, and can only lose sight of itself when it tries to go beyond its own bounds or be pigeon-holed with other philosophies.

Thus concludes a post on existentialism from an, albeit lofty, existentialist perspective.
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