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Existentialism Is a Humanism
Jean-Paul Sartre
Argues that because existence precedes essence, a person has no given nature to fall back on and is condemned to be free, wholly responsible for what they make of themselves.
Philosophy · Nineteenth & Twentieth Century Philosophy
Existentialism
A topic within Nineteenth & Twentieth Century Philosophy, itself one of 13 topics in that field and part of Philosophy.
Reading on Existentialism
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The Tragic Sense of Life
Miguel de Unamuno
Argues that the conflict between reason, which finds no ground for believing in personal immortality, and the will, which cannot stop craving it, is the permanent and irresolvable condition of a thinking person.
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