Albert Camus: Is human existence meaningful?
A thinker rooted in the turbulent 20th century, Albert Camus offered provocative insights that challenge our perceptions of life and
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Existentialism
Existentialism explores life’s meaning and individual freedom. It emphasizes personal responsibility, choice, and the struggle to find purpose in a world devoid of inherent meaning. It invites contemplation and confronts the challenges of existence.
Sartre on authenticity and bad faith
“A grocer who dreams is offensive to the buyer, because such a grocer is not wholly a grocer. Society demands
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Existentialism, radical freedom, and anguish
In Existentialism is a Humanism (1946), Sartre formulates his philosophy that “existence precedes essence.” In other words, since human beings
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Sartre – freedom, existence, and the Nobel Prize
When Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in October 1964, he turned it down saying that he
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Nietzsche – Going beyond good and evil
Going beyond good and evil means we are in territory not covered by traditional morality.
In ‘On the Genealogy of Morality’, Nietzsche argued that there are two types of morality: master morality and slave morality. “Good” and “evil”, he argued, are concepts that fall squarely under the latter.
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Nietzsche and the crisis of morality
“God is dead”, Zarathustra said in Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra, “and we have killed him.” Morality had been the domain of religion for centuries and millennia, until now.
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Nietzsche: Superman of the 19th century
It is hard to overstate the importance and influence of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) on 20th century thinking. Philosophical theories and
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