Jean-Paul Sartre belongs to the Atheist group of Existentialists. His writings examine man as a responsible but lonely being, burdened with a terrifying freedom to choose and set adrift in a meaningless universe. The main purpose of atheist existentialism is ‘God is nowhere’. Sartre is an atheist existentialist and he believes that ‘Existence precedes Essence’....
Was Socrates really doing the right thing in staying in jail? Each one of us has been accused of an act at some point in our lives. Yet those accusations have been terribly mistaken and sometimes there is so little that a person can do to fix that. In this case we are talking about...
Nature can be defined as the natural occurrence of things, or according to Aristotle’s definition, it is the inner principle of change and being at rest. The understanding of nature is one of the most studied concepts in philosophy that goes back to ancient Greek times. Early Greek philosophers did great work in exploring nature,...
In his work Human, All Too Human (1878) Friedrich Nietzsche identifies a “congenital defect” from which seemingly all philosophers suffer. In his diagnosis of philosophical activity, Nietzsche claims this defect originates from a “lack of historical sense.” Many philosophers make unwarranted assertions about “man” and human behaviour. These assertions are frequently made without any historical...
In this essay, I will be critically reviewing the joint works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels “The German Ideology”, focusing on Part A of the chapter “Feuerbach; opposition of the materialistic and idealistic outlook”. In this book, they critique the work of philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s work, along with explaining new concepts such...
