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Calling All Existentialists

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Where are you guys at?

Best Existentialist Philosopher?
2
Sartre
2
Camus
2
Kierkegaard
1
Nietzsche
1
Heidegger
0
Woolf (Virginia)
somethingwhatever
almost 8 years
who wouldnt pick the guy that has sex with models
deletedalmost 8 years

ice says

yeah, can't deny that.

i really love existentialism but never got into the literature, could you recommend anything?


Start with Nietzche's essay "On Truth and Lies in an Extra Moral sense"

PDF: https://jpcatholic.edu/NCUpdf/Nietzsche.pdf

I would highly advise tackling Heidegger's "Being and Nothingness," but that's a really dense, Germanic read.
ice
almost 8 years
yeah, can't deny that.

i really love existentialism but never got into the literature, could you recommend anything?
deletedalmost 8 years

ice says

u need a better hiphop taste my man


Aye well it's not so much the style as it is the lyrics, I'm not a big rap fan but Aesop has some killer lines
ice
almost 8 years
u need a better hiphop taste my man
deletedalmost 8 years

ice says

life's a bítch and then you die, that's why we get high


Pessimist in me agrees, the part of me that revels in that pessimism aligns more with the below:

https://www.reddit.com/r/QuotesPorn/comments/12skel/lifes_not_a_bitch_life_is_a_beautiful_woman_aesop/
ice
almost 8 years
life's a bítch and then you die, that's why we get high