deteriorate and without struggling through life a person can find no meaning or value to the life they lead. Some of these themes had already been introduce before Jean-Paul Sartre came up the additions. The philosophers‚ Arthur Schopenhauer‚ Søren Kierkegaard‚ and Friedrich Nietzsche were the contributors to these themes. All three had a strong distaste for the optimistic idealism of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and for metaphysical systems in general. Such philosophy‚ they thought‚ ignored the
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Søren Kierkegaard’s work - “Fear and Trembling” is very influential in Christian thinking and analyzes about Abraham’s story. In his "Fear and Trembling" Kierkegaard analyzes the negative state of spiritual life: fear‚ anxiety‚ and annoyance. Kierkegaard uses them as a decisive force in the conversion of man to Christianity. These extreme conditions are estimated by him as extremely important in a person’s life only to the extent that their freedom is capable of manifesting in them. To manifest itself
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people think of Kafka as an existentialist. -Existentialism is a 20th-century philosophical movement‚ which assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves. -The early 19th century philosopher Søren Kierkegaard is regarded as the father of existentialism. -Franz Kafka was an important literary author in existentialism. His story‚ which is surreal‚ is one of many modernist literary works that was influenced by existentialist philosophy. -The
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The Existentialists: Critical Essays on Kierkegaard‚ Nietzsche‚ Heidegger‚ and Sartre. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield‚ 2004. Print. V. Gordon‚ Lewis R. Existence in Black: An Anthology of Black Existential Philosophy. New York: Routledge‚ 1997. Print. VI. Magnus‚ Bernd. Nietzsche ’s Existential Imperative. Bloomington: Indiana UP‚ 1978. Print. VII. Reinhardt‚ Kurt F. The Existentialist Revolt; the Main Themes and Phases of Existentialism: Kierkegaard‚ Nietzsche‚ Heidegger‚ Jaspers‚ Sartre‚ Marcel
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m‚ as Sartre was a Marxist while Camus opposed it believing that this would lead to totalitarianism. The foundations of the concept of Absurd can be traced back to the deeply religious Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard‚ also regarded as the forefather of Existentialism. Kierkegaard describes the Absurd as a situation in life which all the rational and thinking abilities of a person are unable to tell him which course of action to adopt in life‚ but in this very uncertainty he is
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Agreed Approach: Explore the idea of loneliness and isolation in the works of Franz Kafka‚ In particular “The Trial”‚ “The Castle” and “The Metamorphosis”. Discuss how he creates this effect through the use of several literary techniques and emphasises it through the overwhelming air of ambiguity and absurdity that prevails through his work. Throughout the last century there have been several authors that have not only had a profound effect on the literary landscape‚ but have revolutionized the
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oriented toward two major themes‚ the analysis of human existence and the centrality of human choice. Existentialism’s chief theoretical energies are thus devoted to questions about ontology and decision. It traces its roots to the writings of Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche. As a philosophy of human existence‚ existentialism found its best 20th-century exponent in Karl Jaspers; as a philosophy of human decision‚ its foremost representative was Jean-Paul Sartre. Sartre finds the essence
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Hindsight is Always 20/20 Many of us tend to dwell on our past. We live insecure and ashamed of the choices we made and the person we have become. We live in excruciating pain because of the wrong people have done to us. Soren Kierkegaard tells us‚ “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forward.” He makes a valid point when he said this. We may not understand why an adversity strikes us exactly when it happens‚ but hindsight is always 20/20. When my parents got divorced
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Sartre (1905 – 1980 ) is perhaps the most well known existentialist and played a key role in 20th century French philosophy and Marxism. Existentialism was formally introduced in the works of philosophers like Soren Kierkegaard‚ Friedrich Nietzsche‚ Edmund Husserl‚ and Martin Heidegger and can be traced to the late nineteenth / early twentieth century writers like Fyodor Dostoevsky and Franz Kafka. Though existentialism as a movement became
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Bibliography: 1 From Don Quixote (1605‚ trans. 1612)‚ a satirical Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. 2 Soren Kierkegaard‚ Nineteenth-century Danish philosopher‚ on "Moral Individualism and Truth."
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