Thursday, September 24, 2009

Existentialism

Existentialism pursues the meaning in existence and seek values for the existing individuals. It emphasizes action, freedom, and decision as fundamental factors to human existence. Existential philosophy is the "explicit conceptual manifestation of an existential attitude" that begins with a sense of disorientation and confusion in the face of an apparently meaningless or absurd world.

Existentialists:
Soren Kierkegaard
Franz Kafla 
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Friedrich Nietzsche
Edmund Husserl
Martin Heidegger
Jean-Paul Sartre
Simone de Beauvoir
Albert Camus
Karl Jaspers

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Reading List

  • Alain de Botton: The Consolations of Philosophy
  • Alec Wilkinson: The Happiest Man in the World
  • Bhagavad Gita As It Is
  • Daniel C Dennett: Breaking the Spell
  • Daniel C Dennett: Consciousness Explained
  • Daniel C Dennett: Darwin's Dangerous Idea
  • Daniel C Dennett: Freedom Evolves
  • David Weeks: Eccentrics
  • Edward O. Wilson: On Human Nature
  • Friedrich Schiller: Essays (The German Library)
  • G. I. Gurdijieff: Life Is Real Only Then, When "I Am"
  • Hil Washburn, ed: The Many Faces of Wisdom
  • John Kekes: The Art of Life
  • John Strohmeier: Divine Harmony (Pythagoras)
  • Matthew Stewart: The Truth about Everything
  • Michel Foucault: Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth
  • Michel Foucault: The Hermeneutics of the Subject
  • Michel Waldberg: Gurdjieff: An Approach to His Ideas
  • Osho: The Book of Understanding
  • Osho: The Book of Wisdom
  • P. D. Ouspensky: In Search of the Miraculous
  • P. D. Ouspensky: The Fourth Way
  • Paul C. Vitz: Faith of the Fatherless
  • Pierre Hadot: What Is Ancient Philosophy (tr: Michael Chase)
  • Robert Wright: Nonzero: the Logic of Human Destiny
  • Robert Wright: The Evolution of God
  • Robert Wright: The Moral Animal
  • Seneca: Dialogues and Essays
  • Seneca: Letters from a Stoic
  • The Upanishads
  • Xenophon: A History of My Time

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