As Friedrich Nietzsche said; “What does nihilism mean? That the highest values devaluate themselves. The aim is lacking; “why?” finds no answer.” Grendels journey through finding himself, leads him ...
Was Existentialism a Humanism?
Most importantly he wanted to show why his theory wasn’t a licence for a nihilistic free ... is that existentialism is not a humanism: it is a pessimistic and rabidly individualistic philosophy which ...
Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life
Throughout his writing career Nietzsche advocated the affirmation of earthly life as a way to counteract nihilism and asceticism ... by engaging various interpretative paradigms reaching from ...
“all the consequences of this”
Kile Jones argues that atheistic existentialism is ... and dread should lead one out of attempts to rationalize and towards a subjective ‘leap of faith’. Although Kierkegaard acknowledges that faith ...
The Philosophy of TV Noir
Film noir reflects the fatalistic themes and visual style of hard-boiled novelists and many émigré filmmakers in 1940s and 1950s America, emphasizing crime, alienation, and moral ambiguity. InThe ...
The Prevelence of Existentialism in The Stranger by Albert Camus
One of the ways existentialism is created in ... so uses minimalist thought to express that he does not place importance on any one thing because they all are in equal in the end. This view inherently ...
Do It Again
Some say that nothing matters, that men's choices lead to ... but what good does a conclusive answer give? Any answer will only cause a person to conduct themselves differently, in accordance with the ...
