Essays on Existentialism

There is one question that humans spend eternities trying to definitely answer, and that question is the meaning of life. Humans need to have an answer for everything, and this one philosophical questions makes people wrack their brains to try to find an answer that can encompass everyone and everything. And what if humans cannot…

Sartre`s Existentialism Sartres essay on existentialism was relatively an easy reading mostly becauseof his frequent use of examples. His ideas on existentialism are in a way backedup and explained through his examples. Morality and the responsibility ofmaintaining morality through free will seem to be the predominant point Sartewants us to understand. He explains the reasons…

In Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett introduces audiences to two vagrants, Estragon (Gogo) and Vladimir (Didi). To summarize the action of the play: the two men are alone on a sparsely decorated stage. One lone, barren tree and a heap of rubbish are the only setting. Gogo and Didi discuss their existence which…

Existentialism is a philosophy theory implicated with discovering yourself through the evolution of self growth. Throughout the novel The Stranger by Albert Camus the conception of existentialism is often seen at the hand of the protagonist, Meursault. The novel analyzes the life of a young man named Meursault that articulates his absence of emotions as…

Abstract             Gestalt therapy is defined as a process which comprises a comprehensive, streamlined, process-oriented, dialogical, phenomenological, and existential approach to human change while focusing on the aspects of centrality of contact, awareness, personal responsiveness and responsibility. Uniqueness of the individual is accorded due primacy and the person is never reduced to parts and structural…

In his novel, Grendel, Gardner chooses to portray the concept of existentialism philosophically. The protagonist Grendel provides evidence of supporting these ideas. Existentialism is connected to the fundamental idea of individualism, where each person is a solitary being thrown into a strange world. According to this literary philosophy, there is no inherent truth, value, or…

Existentialism is a philosophical movement that developed in continental Europeduring the 1800s and 1900s. Most of the members are interested in thenature of existence or being, by which they usually mean human existence. Although the philosophers generally considered to be existentialists oftendisagree with each other and sometimes even resent being classified together,they have been grouped…

‘from being to nothingness: tennessee william’s”cat on a hot tin roof” “There’s gotta be some purpose in life, some meaning.” —Brick Third Act, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Man has always searched for the meaning of life.  Philosophers, biologists, and even psychologists down the ages have always pondered the question of life’s meaning. Why…

Hermeneutics is a topic that has been debated about for many years and two philosophers that have impacted the thought on hermeneutics are Hans-George Gadamer (1900-2002) and Jurgen Habermas (1929- ). In this essay I begin by providing a brief history of hermeneutics and then I go on to explain Gadamer‘s philosophy followed by Habermas’…

HOW DOES ILL SEEN ILL SAID MEAN? In the eyes of a grade 12 student “Man is nothing else but what he makes himself.” A bold sentence spoken by none other than Jean-Paul Sartre, a man who some consider to be the father of existentialism. Existentialism is the belief that the world man makes around…