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...