Hi everyone!! hope u've enjoyed ur holidays...<br>I just finished "L'etranger" du Albert Camus. It's a great novel, i've read "la peste" before. but since i...
Is everyone asleep? Or have we exhausted the subject of Existentialism?<br><br>I just returned from my first Zen retreat. Interesting, how Buddhism exposes the...
Were holding banners<br> And theyre holding guns<br> keeping our rebellion<br> to a minimum<br> as i watch them gain <br> behind this barbed wire fence<br> its...
sure, im a little 14 year old hoodlum who reads a lot and knows his philosophical doctrines.i cant help but get involved. you can judge me and call me a punk ...
"Do not seek yourself outside yourself" Good point Mr. Gnothi Saucon. Do you know what I do when I see a beauiful girl that is so young I don't want to get...
Why are you so defensive?<br>Quite frankly, I don't think anyone is going to hit you back. Isn't age only one measure of ourselves? And if so, it is only of...
I posted this question in the anarchist commune (To those who think anarchism is chaos and disorder, let me rephrase "anarchism", with libertarian ...
hey everybody, I just made a new club, based upon underground art,music,literature and alternative things.It is philosophical as well as political All people...
Greetings,<br><br>I am the founder of the determinism club, on Yahoo. We generally have open chats at 8:00pm EST, on Sundays.<br><br>Recognizing that there may...
Hey I'm new to this board and notice a lot of conversations on postmodernism. What I want to ask is this: Is there a place for existentialism in the postmodern...
what exactly is existentailism? I've read books and I'm still not quite sure.<br><br>~Aquamouth<br><br>I would like to learn more about this fascinating...
Yay! The first post in a REALLY long time.<br><br>It had been traditionally believed that essence preceded existance (for people). That is there was the idea...
A friend of mine asked me the question,"if you subscribe to Kierkegaard, you like his view of faith. I say that the faith Kierkegaard is not faith at all, ...
I think it can be both. There can be faith in something, even though reason says it will not happen yet there can be faith in something that is reasonable. ...
So, ironically, the birth of faith occurs at the moment of any doubt. And the death of faith in a particular thing occurs with resignation of belief in that ...
I would go with michele's definition (sartre)<br>But I would also ad the volation of man (freedom) and that we all share innate feelings of dispair but our ...
"Abraham was greater than all, great by reason of his power whose strength is impotence, great by reason of his wisdom whose secret is foolishness, great by...
True faith...the kind Abraham has. The type of faith that Fr. Smith shows in Percy's "Thanatos Syndrome." The type of faith where one walks right up to the ...
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,<br>The COURAGE to change the things I can,<br>And the wisdom to know the difference.<br><br>My ...
Faith is the absence of courage. It grows out of the fear of nothingness, fear of finding ourselves alone in the universe, not the kings of creation nor even...
They way I have often seen Existentialsim defined is:<br><br>Existentialism deals with four ultimate concerns: Freedom, Isolation, Meaninglessness, and Death....
I agree that faith is born out of fear. This is an absurd world. We have no proof of any creator. We have no purpose, we are no/thing. From that fear I feel...
There is religion and there is Religion. And it is only the free spirit who's traveled long and hard in complete abandonment of the ways of the world and the...
Hello cheesy. You wish to learn more about existentialism. That is good. Yet the greatest knowledge is the knowledge of oneself. And likewise college too can...
Oh where to begin....first they say that existentialism is the "very antithesis of Christian belief in that it <br> asserts the total autonomy of man." Ok, but...
Is essence the self-conscious acts of awreness of the different aspects of our existence. Are our humanity and spirituality our conscious testimonies of the...
I read it, but I don't know what they mean by essence preceeds existence. Has anyone here tried to figure out what existence preceeds essence means? ...
