Is Existentialism Still Relevant? Why Existentialism Still Matters when its Leading Figures Rejected it
Existentialism is not a dead tradition but a living promise.
Learn to tell your story and develop your own personal philosophy through a new existentialist lens
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Existentialism was larger than Sartre. So we need to stop defining it using Sartre’s most famous definition: “existence precedes essence.” Scholars of existential philosophy have stopped using Sartre’s definition to define the existential movement because they recognize that it mostly only fits Sartre’s brand of existentialism. Today,
We can define existentialism as a whole with these two core outlooks: existential tension and existential affirmation.
This is thoughts in ways, a blog by Dustin Zielke that focuses on developing a new existential philosophy, philosophically informed practices, and ways to learn one's own philosophy by learning to tell one's own story.