How strange is it...?!
Question: to be anything at all?
Y!A wanted to put this under mental health
Answers: to be anything at all?
Y!A wanted to put this under mental health
humm...maybe dudeman is on to something here...(queue flashback music and special visual bluring effect)...
Existentialism differentiates itself from the modern Western rationalist tradition of philosophers such as Descartes in rejecting the idea that the most certain and primary reality is rational consciousness. Descartes argues in his Meditations on First Philosophy that, while humans can doubt almost all aspects of reality as illusions, humans can be certain of their consciousness, which is therefore the only truth ("Cogito ergo sum").
Sartre, in Essays in Existentialism, further highlights this consciousness of being thrown into existence in the following fashion. "If man, as the existentialist conceives him, is indefinable, it is because at first he is nothing. Only afterward will he be something, and he himself will have made what he will be". Kierkegaard also focused on the deep anxiety of human existence — the feeling that there is no purpose, indeed nothing, at its core. Finding a way to counter this nothingness, by embracing existence, is the fundamental theme of existentialism, and the root of the philosophy's name. Someone who believes in reality might be called a "realist," and someone who believes in a deity could identify as a "theist." Someone who believes fundamentally only in existence, and seeks to find meaning in his or her life solely by embracing existence, is an existentialist.
or perhaps he's fallen on his head recently...
Your girlfriend dumped you again?
oh dear
another amazing question
man you must be god
your my hero odd tuna