Søren Kierkegaard very often approaches other gifted thinkers with both appreciation and critique. His journals and papers are full of aphorisms from a wide variety of authors-from Luther to Goethe-as well as commentaries on their origin and content. He culls important thoughts from both the popular and the obscure, and without foregoing a careful ( Read more... )

Can anyone recommend a source/article/book that systematically critiques Aristotelian/Thomistic epistemology and ontology from an existentialist perspective?  Did Kierkegaard ever do a systematic critique of it?

Thanks.

I will state what existentialist morality is not, then present the remaining qualities of existentialist morality, and finally consider whether or not this morality is coherent. (Sartre quotes are from Existentialism is a Humanism.)

( Incorporating JP Sartre, RM Hare, and WD Ross )

In Sartre's Existentialism is a Humanism there is what seems to be a paradoxical message concerning what you should do and why you should do it. Sartre tries to convince the reader to be an existentialist (specifically an atheist existentialist) while explaining what it means to be an existentialist, but his explanation of existentialism does so ( Read more... )

OK, I'm trying to get a handle on Sartre's idea of bad faith. It all seems very simple, either denying our facticity, denying our freedom, or failing to reconcile our facticity with our freedom. But when I read chapter two of Being and Nothingness, Sartre seems to decide to be completely inconsistent with his uses of the term, and hide it behind ( Read more... )

I just saw a show on a public access channel about existentialism, mainly about Jean-Paul Sartre. And I thought the following distinction might be a good starting point to illustrate my recent thoughts on philosophy, science, etc.: the universe as a realm of pure possibility (for instance, as described in Sartre's book Nausea), vs. the universe as ( Read more... )