existentialism is a stancestance
a stance is a pattern people use to think about meaningness. We care about stances because people are rarely strict followers of a system, philosophical or otherwise. The extremes are Eternalis... regarding the meaningnessmeaningness
meaningness is a book describing the eponymous quality of having meaning as well as the study of this quality and a stance that acknowledges it.
when we talk about the meaning of X, we are emp... of the human condition as a response to nihilismnihilism
nihilism is the view that nothing matters.
nihilism as an “ideology of nothing” would mean not that we adhere to a discernible system of beliefs about nothingness, but rather that the beliefs w... from Jean-Paul sartresartre
Existence precedes essence. – Sartre
jean-paul sartre (1905-80) was a philosopher from france who worked on existentialism. his work being and nothingness is seen as a brilliant misreading... and others, coming from nietzschenietzsche
friedrich wilhelm nietzsche (1844-1900) was a philosopher from germany. in 1869, at the age of 24, he became a professor. his first book was The Birth of Tragedy, published in 1872, about greek tra..., kierkegaardkierkegaard
soren kierkegaard was a danish philosopher of christian and existentialism. he wrote about socrates and irony.
, heideggerheidegger
martin heidegger (1889-1976) was a philosopher from germany who did work in phenomenology and being. his major work is sein und zeit. he began in a seminary, but then became a student of ....