Post of the Year

 

 

I always participate in serious threads, it's you that's getting serious.

 

I'm a philosophy major, I can't help it sometimes.

 

I was actually very into existentialism for quite awhile.  Allow me to start a tangent.

 

Existentialism as you know is a branch of modern philosophy concerning darker points of view.  Heidegger, Nietzche, Wiggenstein, Sarte, and Husserl. 

 

The beginning of existentialism was Rene Descartes Discourse on Method and The Meditations.  Existentialists althought in disagree with Descartes on the existence of god, are often influenced by Descartes Methodical Doubt.  It's the influence on existentialism that often makes philosophy students believe many of Descartes works are absurd.  His works had obviously influenced a branch of philsophy that he not only fundamentally disagrees with, but had no intention of starting.

 

Edmund Husserl's Being and Time is probably the single most important radical existentialist work.  Martin Heidegger greatly expanded on his ideas as well.  I personally would stay away from Nietzche, too much of his work is "I am smart you are stupid". 

 

Existentialists don't believe in a god the same way christians do.  There are two kinds of existentialism.  French and German.  German existentialism is more in favor of athieism.  My philosophy professor, who is a very intelligent religous philosopher read both Heidegger and Husserl.  He said he wanted to tape those books shut.  So maybe Heidegger and Husserl are for you.

 

Have you seen my serious posts before?

 

Go on www.metalstorm.ee and see some of my older posts!