Tag: existentialism
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Michel de Montaigne as a precursor of existentialism
For historians of philosophy, there is a definite proof that Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) was a forerunner of modern existentialism; they point to Montaigne’s essay […]
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Michel de Montaigne and existentialism
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) is regarded as the first existentialist philosopher in history because he accepted the inevitability of death, and sought to maximise his […]
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The key difference between Schopenhauer and existentialism
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) would have been amused to see philosophers like Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) theorize about anxiety and personal authenticity. Sartre didn’t regard as self-evident […]
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Schopenhauer and existentialism
The reasons why philosophy books trace the inception of existentialism to Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) are rather weak. Nonetheless, they have attained the status of mainstream […]
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