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3 days ago · Existential Poetry Today. Most modern day existentialist poets examine the same themes as their predecessors, however with a contemporary perspective. In The Light of the World, Elizabeth Alexander writes “We all have the mountain each of us must climb/we travel the pilgrimage to the beat of a different drummer.”
3 days ago · The philosophy of existentialism holds that individuals define their own existence through freely made choices. This belief emphasizes personal responsibility in resolving existential dilemmas. Although an existential crisis is not recognized as a clinical medical condition, it is often characterized by a pattern of questioning and anxiety ...
3 days ago · With the rise of the scientific authority of neuroscience and recent neurotechnological advances, the understanding of the human being and its future is beginning to undergo a radical change. As a result, a normative and existential vacuum is opening and hopes as well as fears about the future are flourishing. Some philosophers are anticipating a broad neuroscientific disenchantment ...
3 days ago · Definition of Existentialism. The purpose of the IEP is to provide detailed, scholarly, peer-reviewed information on key topics and philosophers in all areas of academic philosophy. The Encyclopedia’s articles are written with the intention that most of the article can be understood by advanced undergraduates majoring in philosophy and by ...
- Joan Donati
- 2011
4 days ago · Søren Aabye Kierkegaard ( / ˈsɒrən ˈkɪərkəɡɑːrd / SORR-ən KEER-kə-gard, US also /- ɡɔːr / -gor, Danish: [ˈsɶːɐn ˈɔˀˌpyˀ ˈkʰiɐ̯kəˌkɒˀ] ⓘ; [8] 5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855 [9]) was a Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first ...
- 11 November 1855 (aged 42), Copenhagen, Denmark
5 days ago · PHIL - 348. Existentialism. 3 credit (s) The philosophy of 20th century Existentialism and its 19th century origins. Main figures include Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Marcel, Camus, Sartre, and Beauvoir. Typical questions pertain to freedom, death, responsibility, absurdity, and the meaning of existence in theistic and atheistic contexts ...
2 days ago · PHIL 256 - Existentialism. This course is an inquiry into the meaning of human existence with particular emphasis on the self. The course encourages inquiry into the meaning of our experience with absurdity, alienation, anxiety, freedom, God, and being. Direction for thinking about these issues is provided by philosophers such as Nietzsche ...
