Perhaps it all began in Nietzsche’s philosophy; or perhaps the origin is very far from Nietzsche, yet it...
Schopenhauer on Suffering: “All Life Is Suffering”
Schopenhauer links together suffering and the “will-to-live”, thinks them form out of their togetherness, and says that suffering...
Heidegger: Authenticity, Historicality, and Heritage
In Being and Time, Heidegger says that the scope of the concept of authenticity must be extended to...
Sartre on Anguish: “We Are Anguish”
Sartre defines consciousness as nothingness and nothingness as freedom. It is in this togetherness of consciousness and freedom...
What Does Heidegger Mean by “Dasein’s Thrownness”?
In Being and Time, Heidegger says that we are thrown into the world. In this short article, what...
What Does Sartre Mean by “Being in-Itself”?
In Being and Nothingness, Sartre refuses any dualistic thinking of the world, and introduces what he calls “being...
Why Did Sartre Refuse the Freudian Unconscious?
The unconscious, for Sartre, means that there is a part of ourselves that is absent, radically foreign, and...
Dostoyevsky’s Existentialism: What Does It Mean to Be a Self?
Perhaps it is through the following questions that Dostoyevsky’s writings might be approached: What does it mean to...
Lev Shestov’s Religious Existentialism
“Has there ever been a single philosopher who recognized God?” Perhaps this is one of the most important...
What Is Existential Isolation?
Existential isolation belongs to existence and arises because there is existence and existing, and because we exist; it...