Indispensable guide to one of the most influential thought systems of our century. Stressing the work of Heidegger and Sartre, it offers a careful and objective examination of the existentialist position and values — freedom of choice, individual dignity, personal love, creative effort — and answers to the eternal questions of the human condition.
Indispensable guide to one of the most influential thought systems of our century. Stressing the work of Heidegger and Sartre, it offers a careful and objective examination of the existentialist position and values — freedom of choice, individual dignity, personal love, creative effort — and answers to the eternal questions of the human condition.
I Value Orientation
The Ordinary Man's Values
Values in Traditional Philosophy
Existentialist Values
Defense of Existentialist Values
II The Human Condition
The Anguish of Being
Anguish Before the Here and Now
Anguish of Freedom
III Reason and Unreason
Philosophical Rationalism
Empiricism
The Existentialist Alternative
IV Freedom
Non-existentialist Theories
Modern Versions of Determinism
The Existentialist Theory
Criticism
V Authenticity
Heidegger on Authenticity
Sartre on Authenticity
Inauthenticity and Philosophical Error
Criticism
VI The Other
The Historical Setting
The Existence of the Other
Authenticity and the Other
Criticism
VII Death
Death and the Intense Life
Heidegger on Death
Sartre on Death
Heidegger and Sartre Contrasted
NOTES
INDEX
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Indispensable guide to one of the most influential thought systems of our century. Stressing the work of Heidegger and Sartre, it offers a careful and objective examination of the existentialist position and values — freedom of choice, individual dignity, personal love, creative effort — and answers to the eternal questions of the human condition.