SOCRATIFIC

In the coming months I'd like to finally read Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness. My plan for doing so is to use Professor Paul Vincent Spade's class lecture notes as a guide, and in keeping with Professor Spade's advice to first read Edmund Husserl...

Existentialism urges us to live according to our own personal values, not the values we learned from our parents, culture, etc. Existentialism, in other words, asks us to develop our essences and be ourselves (Martin, Campbell, and Henry, 2004, p. 4...

When philosophers talk about “the meaning of life,” they usually mean that life has some sort of purpose. But not just any purpose. They usually hold that this purpose must be a good purpose, an animating purpose, the type of purpose that makes one feel...

Responses to "The Other"
As previously discussed, cultural worldviews are vital to human thriving, as they mitigate the death anxiety that would otherwise be debilitating. Cultural worldviews are maintained through consensual validation. Solomon, Greenberg, & Pyszczynski...