THE PHILOSOPHY OF POLITICS CONTINUED.
What is Existentialism?
It is a timeless sensibility that can be discerned here and there in the past; but it is only in recent times that it has hardened into a sustained protest and preoccupation.
No individuallity is not retouched, idealized, or holy; it is wretched and revolting, and yet for all its misery, the highest good.
Freedom, choice, decision.
Sometimes Antigreek.
The individual's concrete existence.
The objective truth of certain beliefs.
Why just Christianity?
Scholarship cannot firmly establish faith. Instead, it undermines faith.
The contrast of the passionate idolater with the Christian who prays in a false spirit is attractive.
Passionate and Certainty.
Fanaticism vs. Humility.
Christianity: Absurd Beliefs, easily vulnerable by rational attack, tend to generate a great deal of passion that is admired.
Reflection: The Question of Truth.
Man, in a word, has no nature, what he has is history.
Reason and Existence.
Making Tradition our own.
The real import of history is the Great, the unique, the irreplaceable.
Philosophy: Understanding of the ideas demands a thorough study of the text.
Philosophy requires a universal view.
The Philosopher delve's into the invisible realm of the spirit.
The Universal-historical view is a condition for the most decisive consciousness of one's own age.
Philosophy is not science, epistemology, nor the knowledge of systems and texts of philosophies history.
Philosophy is growth through life.
Philosophical thought is a practical activity, although a unique kind of activity.
Transcendence.
Logic and History of Philosophy are complementary.
Historical Reflections related to The Contemporary Situation.
Suspicion of scientific men.
Against the System.
Being as interpretation.
Masks.
Being Itself.
Honesty.
Perception of substantial change.
In essence of people.
Modernity Overcome.
Unlimited Reflection.
Drive toward the basic.
Arrest in Transcendence.
Their being as exceptions.
Against the interchangeability.
Self-Conscious.
Conscious of failure
Of exceptionality, of loneliness.
Providence and chance.
Dancing.
No Prophecy.
The Deed.
Disordering Influence.
Spirit vs. Empirical Existence.
Encompassing World and trascendence.
The essence of being there lies in its existence.
Self-deception and falsehood.
Patterns of self-deception.
The Faith of Self-Deception.
Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre
On Your Mission.
On Your Works.
On his Mode of Existence.
That Individual.
Dread and Freedom.
Authority.
Truth is subjectivity.
The Challenge of every great philosophy.
On free death.
The Beginning of the Will to Power.
From Ecce Homo.
An Imperial Message.
Before the Law.
Existenzphilosophie
On my philosophy.
The Economy.
The Quest for Being.
Phenomenology and Metaphysics.
The Wall.
Self -Deception.
Portrait of the Anti-Semite.
Existentialism is Humanism.
Marxism and Humanism.
The Myth of Sisyphus.
Some Christians and some Anti-Christians.
Perfervid Individualism.
Existentialism: The refusal to belong to any school of thought, the repudiation of the adequacy of any body of beliefs whatever, and especially of systems and a marked dissatisfaction with traditional philosophy as superficial academic, and remote from life, that is the heart of existentialism.