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Existentialism

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I like phenomenology but afrter hearing you Mark (existence does not precede essence) and Sam Harris (the only good think they said was people can interpret things in different ways), I am not so sure. One think I do remember fornly is Sartre's keyhole episode in Being and Nothingness. Also the idea of a philosophical anthropology is a good one.
 
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I like phenomenology but afrter hearing you Mark (existence does not precede essence) and Sam Harris (the only good think they said was people can interpret things in different ways), I am not so sure.

Chapter 3 of the book in the OP has an excellent chapter on existence! :thumbsup:

One think I do remember fornly is Sartre's keyhole episode in Being and Nothingness.

I am yet to get to Sartre, my focus has been Heidegger.

Also the idea of a philosophical anthropology is a good one.

I love the transcendent anthropology of Rahner.
 
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Is that Christian existentialism?
Wikipdeia said:
In The Courage to Be, he lists three basic anxieties: anxiety about our biological finitude, i.e. that arising from the knowledge that we will eventually die; anxiety about our moral finitude, linked to guilt; and anxiety about our existential finitude, a sense of aimlessness in life.
 
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