The assumption that there exists a God, a conscious God that preceded and created the universe is something...
Camus on Art, Absurd Artists, and the Absurd
In The Myth of Sisyphus, Camus says that there exists between art and the absurd a contradictory relation,...
Sartre on Love: Paradoxical and Impossible
For Sartre, love is impossible; love is a project that inevitably fails. Love is an endeavor to be...
Simone de Beauvoir on Love
According to Simone de Beauvoir, men and women experience, feel, and think about love differently. This difference renders...
Sartre on Abandonment
According to Sartre, abandonment does not mean that we are forgotten about or left behind by a certain...
Simone de Beauvoir and Existentialism
The thinking-philosophizing of Simone de Beauvoir is grounded in existentialism, its detours, and attempts; it takes existentialism as...
Camus on Happiness in The Myth of Sisyphus
In The Myth of Sisyphus, Camus thinks from out the question of suicide, toward and into happiness, whose...
Sartre on Existentialism in Existentialism Is a Humanism
In Existentialism Is a Humanism, Sartre introduces the detours of his existentialism by bringing existentialism and humanism together...
Heidegger on Facticity
For Heidegger, facticity is what decides, conditions, or determines Dasein’s existence from out of Dasein’s own existence in...
Explaining Sartre’s “Hell Is Other People”
Sartre’s “hell is other people” means that it is hell to exist subject to, awaiting, and controlled by...
Camus: Absurdism, Nihilism, and Solidarity
Is the absurdism of Camus a form of nihilism? Is the absurd nihilistic? And to what extent could...
Heidegger on “Being-Toward-Death”
Death is one of the questions around which the whole thinking of Heidegger revolves. Death is the inevitable...
Sartre on Death in Being and Nothingness
In Being and Nothingness, Sartre criticizes Heidegger’s conception of death in Being and Time and offers his own...
Schopenhauer’s On the Vanity and Suffering of Life
On The Vanity and Suffering of Life is an essay that appears in the second volume of Schopenhauer’s...
Camus on the Absurd in The Stranger
The absurd, for Camus in The Stranger as well as in The Myth of Sisyphus, is the meaninglessness...
What Does Sartre Mean by “Bad Faith”?
Bad faith lies at the heart of the existentialism of Sartre. It appears early in Being and Nothingness...
Heidegger on Death in Being and Time
Heidegger discusses death at length in Being and Time. This article introduces and explains Heidegger’s existential conception of...
Explaining Sartre’s “Existence Precedes Essence”
“Existence precedes essence” was first mentioned in a public lecture that was later published as Existentialism Is a...
Camus on the Two Kinds of Suicide
In The Myth of Sisyphus, Camus distinguishes between two kinds of suicide. The first one is the event...
Camus on Absurdity in The Myth of Sisyphus
Camus begins The Myth of Sisyphus with the question of suicide, but it is the thought of the...