December 2009
45 posts
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Killing an Arab - The Cure Camus’...
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“Whenever in a stricter sense there is question of an either/or, one can always...”
– Søren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Victor Eremita (Either/Or, 1843)
“In a logical system, it is convenient to say that possibility passes over into...”
– Søren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Vigilius Haufniensis (The Concept of Anxiety ,1844)
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“Anxiety may be compared with dizziness. He whose eye happens to look down into...”
– Søren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Vigilius Haufniensis (The Concept of Anxiety ,1844)
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“I am free, and that is why I am lost.”
– Franz Kafka (via littlelemon)
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“Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand...”
–
Franz Kafka
(via earlyfrost)
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“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
– Soren Kierkegaard (via esteenabiela)
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“People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have, for example, freedom of...”
– Soren Kierkegaard (via rhiannonds)
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“Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one”
– Heidegger (German philosopher) 1889 – 1976 (via umalik)
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“We can conclude only that “Being” is not something like a being.”
– Martin Heidegger, Introduction to Being and Time (via bleedingfromreading)
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“What is meant by “Being-in”? Our proximal reaction is to round out this...”
– What Heidegger Means by Being-in-the-World (via wildcat2030)
“I am in the profoundest sense an unhappy individuality, riveted from the...”
– Soren Kierkegaard
The spirit is one thing, the psyche another: The blues one thing, despair another.
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“An individual in despair despairs over something. So it seems for a moment, but...”
– Soren Kierkegaard
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“A human being is a spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is...”
– Soren Kierkegaard begins “Sickness” with this famous albeit slightly ironic bit of word play.
“Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom,...”
– Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus.
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“What is the Absurd? It is, as may quite easily be seen, that I, a rational...”
– Søren Kierkegaard, Journals, 1849
Kierkegaard describes how a man would endure a defiance and identifies the three major traits of the Absurd Man, later discussed by Albert Camus: a rejection of escaping existence (suicide), a rejection of help from a higher power and acceptance of his absurd (and...
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Existentialism as a literary fad.
Many representatives of the philosophy of existence do not recognize Sartre’s existentialism as a faithful expose of their ideas. they reproach him for having turned existentialism into a literary fad or having distorted it into a nihilistic and atheistic doctrine but the fact that Sartre has created a more intensive interest in this philosophy than any of its modern exponents is true. It is...
“Don’t lies eventually lead to the truth? And don’t all my stories, true or...”
– Albert Camus (via myserendipities)
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“Don’t you feel the same way? When I cannot see myself, even though I touch...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre (via myserendipities)
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“In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there...”
– Jean-Paul Sarte (via myserendipities)
“No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same:...”
– Nietzsche, 1892, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (via logicaloctopus)
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“Isn’t it funny how you can ache just
from the deadly drone of
existence?”
– Charles Bukowski (The People Look Like Flowers At Last: New Poems)
“I think it was Faulkner who once said that when you strike a match in a dark...”
– Javier Marías, interviewed here. (via thebronzemedal) (via libraryland) (via palimpsestghost) (via wahnbriefe)
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Existentialism as a doctrine.
Sartre has asserted that existentialism “is nothing else but an attempt to draw all the consequences from a consistent atheist position,” while Berdyaev is reported to have exclaimed, ”L’existentialisne, c’est moi!” But Berdyaev is no atheist, whileSartre is not Berdyaev: the positions are obviously incompatible.
According to Sartre, that which all...
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Existentialism and Determinism.
Sartre may say, and indeed does say, that his meaning is that man has no essence antecedently to his free choices, to the essence he creates freely; but since he is able to delimit man as the object of his existential analysis in such a way that chickens are excluded, it is difficult to take him altogether seriously or to suppose that the proposition, “existence precedes essence,”...
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Being and Nothingness: What is 'bad faith'?
‘Bad faith’ is an important concept in Sartrean existentialism. To act in bad faith is to turn away from the authentic choosing of oneself and to act in conformity with a stereotype or role. Sartre’s most famous example is that of a waiter:
‘Let us consider this waiter in the cafe. His movement is quick and forward, a little too precise, a little too rapid. He comes...
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Being and Nothingness: What is it like to be a...
for Sartre, human reality consists of two modes of existence: of being and of nothingness. The human being exists both as an in-itself (ensoi), an object or thing, and as a for-itself (pour-soi), a consciousness. The existence of an in-itself is ‘opaque to itself .. because it is filled with itself.’ In contrast, the for-itself, or consciousness, has no such fullness of existence,...
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“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness,...”
– Jean-Paul Sarte (via myserendipities) (via dondante)
“You’re readin’ Kirkegaard
Underneath your very black beret...”
– “Feeling Existential” by Mojo Nixon
“Oh! I see my life clearly now […] a passionate, frantic search. […] I didn’t...”
– Simone de Beauvoir: The Coming of Age (translated by Patrick O’Brian) (via fuckyeahphilosophy) (via fairphantom)
“…in spite of or in defiance of the whole of existence he wills to be himself...”
– The Sickness Unto Death, Søren Kierkegaard (via wahnbriefe)
“If I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to...”
– Albert Camus (via wahnbriefe)
“At this point of his effort man stands face to face with the irrational. He...”
– Albert Camus (via wahnbriefe)
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“If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom there were...”
– Soren Kierkegaard (via harkaway)