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Atheistic existentialism is the exclusion of any transcendental, metaphysical, or religious beliefs from philosophical existentialist thought (e.g. anguish or rebellion in light of human finitude and limitations). Nevertheless, it shares elements with religious existentialism (e.g. the philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard) and with metaphysical ...
Aug 21, 2023 · In the 20th century, Jean-Paul Sartre, a key figure in existentialism, took up the challenge of thinking about the meaning of life without recourse to theology. Sartre argued that Aristotle, and ...
- Oscar Davis
This essay focuses attention on two key components of theistic meaning of life theories that theists argue are importantly missing from atheistic theories, immortality and a Divine Plan. It also considers atheistic alternatives to theistic accounts of meaningfulness that involve subjectivism, intrinsic values, and Susan Wolf’s hybrid theory ...
Jan 20, 2018 · In this vein, there is no shortage of views on what life meaning is, how it “works,” or how we should conceive of it. Frankl (1959/2006) argued that meaning in life was something that each individual seeks and constructs for themselves, whereas Baumeister (1991) argued that life meaning is comprised of four elements: a goal or purpose, values and justification for goals and purposes, a ...
- David Speed, Thomas Joseph Coleman, Joseph Langston
- 2018
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Mar 29, 2024 · According to existentialism: (1) Existence is always particular and individual—always my existence, your existence, his existence, her existence. (2) Existence is primarily the problem of existence (i.e., of its mode of being ); it is, therefore, also the investigation of the meaning of Being. (3) That investigation is continually faced with ...
Apr 20, 2022 · Following that, some prominent arguments for the view that atheism implies that all human lives are meaningless are critically examined. The conclusion of that discussion is that the claim that atheism entails meaninglessness is implausible. Keywords: atheism, extrinsic meaning, flow, intrinsic meaning, love, meaning in life, Sisyphus.
OF JEAN-PAUL SARTRE. XX AILABLE now in English is the literature providing access to the literary, social, religious, and philosophical movement known as. existentialism. Kierkegaard, father of the movement, has been trans-. lated, and representative samples of his writing have been collected in a fine anthology.
