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Post lesser known existentialists.

>> No.17760912

>>17760903
Henry David Thoreau was the greatest of the existentialists.

>> No.17760941
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>existence precedes essence

>> No.17760947

>>17760941
Imagine not believing this.

>> No.17761046

>>17760941
lmao

>> No.17761060

>>17760947
We are literally products of the natural selection process. Our purpose by design is to maximize our prospects for multi-generational survival. How is this not obvious to more people? Obviously we have a pre-determined essence, its just not quite a divine as we thought historically (unfortunately perhaps)

>> No.17761063

>>17761060
this

I think the fact that this isn't more commonly accepted shows how over-socialized we are

>> No.17761516

>>17760903
This fucker made me into a reactionary. Thank you, to my favorite silicone valley kike with glasses for introducing me to him

>> No.17761706

>>17761060
>purpose
that's not how evolution works. mutation and selection are causes of origin, not causes of means or ends.

>> No.17761783

>>17760941
>Implying essence even exists.
Lmao

>> No.17761823

>>17761060
>if i invent systems and assume purposes and goals and functions then it's all real problem solved
shut the fuck up you utter retard

>> No.17761896

>>17761516
>to my favorite silicone valley kike with glasses
Literally who?

>> No.17761901

>>17761896
Chadius Chadbug

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>>17761901
>he found Carlyle through Moldbug

>> No.17761908

>>17760903
>lesser known
he made one of the most famous theories of the 19th century

>> No.17761923

>>17760941
I think you meant to say that ek-sistence thoughtfully dwells in the house of being

>> No.17761952

>>17760941
Based

>> No.17762062

>>17761060
>>17761063
>it's obvious because it's what I think!!!
literal retards

>> No.17762994

>>17760941
That's just Sartre's autism.

>> No.17763015

>>17761060
>suicide exists
oops, refuted. Or are you going to conjure up some semantic jargon to defend your point? ahahaha faggot

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>>17760941
>essence and existence occur at once and their interpenetration bleeds through all of time through the constant marriage of protention and retention within the phenomenological moment

>> No.17763101

>>17763039
Why does he even separate existence and essence?

>> No.17763835 [DELETED] 

>>17760912
I thought he was a Transcendentalist.

>> No.17764032

>>17761060
>Our purpose by design is to maximize our prospects for multi-generational surviva
Human, intentional purpose /= cold, dead, blind purpose of evolution

>> No.17764072

>>17760903
After reading a couple of his plays I would argue Schiller was the first fully existentialist writer.

>> No.17764080

>>17764072
What’s his best play? Where does he go furtherest in describing his philosophical thought?

>> No.17764216

>>17764080
I've only read two (Don Carlos and Wallenstein) but in both his characters go in depth on the limits and possibility of human freedom, choice, and action. Of the two I would definitely pick Wallenstein. It's considered his masterpiece and definitely better than Don Carlos which is a bit slow and convoluted plot wise. Wallenstein also has a thread of idealism vs realism running through it with the two Piccolomini characters and also touches on themes of loyalty, duty, honor, and human fate and destiny.

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>> No.17764959

>>17760903
Jean-Paul Sartre

>> No.17765427

>>17764862
I understand there's a strong relation between esotericism and existentialism, but isn't it a bit far to call him an existentialist?

>> No.17765431

>>17760903
why does that photo look so dope

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>>17765431
Physiognomy king.

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>>17761923
Based Heideggerian

>> No.17765666

>>17761060
>Our purpose by design
>natural selection
God damnit anon do better

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I will learn philosophy for she

>> No.17765857

>>17761903
What more certain validation of a mans worth could there be?