Sartre on “Existence precedes essence”
My video meditation on Jean-Paul Sartre’s famous phrase from his “Existentialism is a Humanism,” below or at YouTube:
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My video meditation on Jean-Paul Sartre’s famous phrase from his “Existentialism is a Humanism,” below or at YouTube:
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Wow, science and technology really can solve all philosophical problems. More Savage Chickens by Canadian cartoonist Doug Savage.
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Stephen Hicks discusses Camus’s interpretation of the Myth of Sisyphus and its implications for Existentialism. This is from Part 11 of his Philosophy of Education course. Clips 1-2: Previous: God is dead. Next: Jean-Paul Sartre and “Existence precedes essence.” Return to the Philosophy of Education page. Return to the StephenHicks.org main page.
Albert Camus and “The Myth of Sisyphus” Read More »
Stephen Hicks introduces the philosophy of Existentialism by means of Friedrich Nietzsche’s claim that God is dead, reflection on the rise of science and the decline of religion in the modern world, and the early-twentieth-century lived experience of world war, Depression, and the Holocaust. This is from Part 11 of his Philosophy of Education course.
Professor Hicks places several of the philosophical “isms” — Idealism, Realism, Pragmatism, Existentialism, and so on — on a four-dimensional array. This is from Part 6 of his Philosophy of Education course. Clips 1-4: Previous: Philosophy “vertically”: integrating positions into systems. Next: Why those seven: influence on contemporary education and philosophical diversity. Return to the
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Stephen Hicks here presents philosophy metaphorically “vertically,” discussing how the major philosophies compare to each other as integrated systems. This is from Part 6 of Professor Hicks’s Philosophy of Education course. 1 Clip: Previous: Philosophy “horizontally”: metaphysics, epistemology, human nature, ethics. Next: Placing our seven “isms.” Return to the Philosophy of Education page. Return to
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