This 20th century German existentialist penned "What Is Metaphysics?"
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Metaphysics - Wikipedia  Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy investigating the fundamental nature of being and the world that encompasses it. Metaphysics attempts to answer two...
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Is Metaphysics possible? - The Science and Philosophy Forum  ronjanec wrote: The what is space question must first be answered before any scientist ..... known as "logical positivism" which held that all prior German metaphysics (in the style .... (i.e. circa the early 20th century) see Heidegger's "What is Metaphysics: ... See http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/existentialism/
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Existentialism - Wikipedia  Existentialism is a term applied to the work of certain late-19th- and 20th-century European ..... Although Martin Buber wrote his major philosophical works in German, and studied and ...... Carnap's critique of Heidegger's "What is Metaphysics".
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Continental philosophy - Wikipedia  Continental philosophy is a set of 19th- and 20th-century philosophical traditions from mainland ... Continental philosophy includes the following movements: German idealism, phenomenology, existentialism (and its antecedents, such as the thought .... Carnap's paper argues that Heidegger's lecture "What Is Metaphysics?
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Martin Heidegger - Wikipedia  Martin Heidegger was a German philosopher and a seminal thinker in the Continental tradition and philosophical hermeneutics. According to the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, he is "widely acknowledged to be one of the most original and important philosophers of the 20th century. ..... In the course of his existential analytic, Heidegger argues that Dasein, who...
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Sartre's Being & Nothingness: The Bible of Existentialism? | Issue 53 ...  You've read one of your four complementary articles for this month. ... 722 pages of fine print (in the original French edition), published in the midst of World ... Being and Nothingness hits the shelves with a loud thud (rumour has it that it ... grasp of being is a world supported by being of which we can say nothing but that it is.
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Being and Nothingness - Wikipedia  Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology sometimes subtitled A Phenomenological Essay on Ontology, is a 1943 book by philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. Sartre's main purpose is to assert the individual's existence as prior to the ... Born into the material reality of one's body, in a material universe, one finds...
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The Metamorphosis - Wikipedia  The Metamorphosis is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been called one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and .... The Viennese author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, whose sexual imagination .... biography of Kafka also known as Kafka for Beginners, R. Crumb's Kafka, or simply Kafka.
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Immanuel Kant - Wikipedia  Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher who is considered the central figure of modern ... In Kant's major work, the Critique of Pure Reason (Kritik der reinen Vernunft, 1781) ... These included the Critique of Practical Reason (Kritik der praktischen .... In 1778, in response to one of these offers by a former pupil, Kant wrote:.
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On Translating Kafka's The Metamorphosis - The New Yorker  Jan 14, 2014 ... Kafka's celebrated novella The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung) was written a .... One last translation problem in the story is the title itself. ... German word Verwandlung does not suggest a natural change of state associated...
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Rumi's Garden - Classics of the Western Canon  May 10, 2016 ... Johnson's last major work was Lives of the Poets. .... The most famous of the French existentialist philosophers, Sartre was at once a philosopher ... religion as such and espoused strongly agnostic and in fact atheistic attitudes. ... the existentialist fleet with the publication of Being and Nothingness in 1943.
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Nietzsche, Friedrich | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy  Nietzsche claimed the exemplary human being must craft his/her own ..... a purpose for existence, but in an ironic form, perhaps esoterically and without ... In Nietzsche's later writings we find the development of concepts that seem .... of Western metaphysics and its system of values (The Word of Nietzsche: 'God is dead').
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Free Flashcards about PHILOSOPHY - StudyStack  SPINOZA. EMMANUEL KANT IS A BIG NAME IN THIS FIELD OF PHILOSOPHY, CONCERNED WITH THE ULTIMATE NATURE OF THINGS... METAPHYSICS.
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Understanding Being and Time | Florida Student Philosophy Blog  Oct 7, 2013 ... [1] Heidegger heralds the end of metaphysics by establishing being totally within ... Dasein is a combination of two words, (the German) Da, which .... image of and having a nature like God's, his being bound to world makes .... in the works of Martin Heidegger and the other twentieth century existentialists.
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Philosophy of Sren Kierkegaard - Wikipedia  Sren Kierkegaard's philosophy has been a major influence in the development of 20th-century philosophy, especially existentialism and postmodernism. Kierkegaard was a 19th-century Danish philosopher who has been called the "Father of Existentialism". .... Humans cannot think out choices in life, we must live them; and even those...
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Karl Jaspers (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)  Jun 5, 2006 ... Karl Jaspers (18831969) began his academic career working as a psychiatrist ... Then, in 1921, he became a full professor of philosophy in Heidelberg. His first major publications were works of psychology; most notable among these ... In the early stages of its evolution, therefore, existentialism might be...
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Sartre's existentialism  the nausea of life's meaninglessness as a ...  Nov 26, 2012 ... ... Sartre published his philosophical novel Nausea in 1938. Nausea was his very first work and it can be seen as the forerunner of Sartre's existentialism, ... life's and the world's contingency, its randomness and superfluity,...
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Is The Second Sex Beauvoir's Application of Sartrean Existentialism?  An analysis of Beauvoir's recently discovered 1927 diary, written while she was a ... Simone de Beauvoir's 1949 feminist masterpiece, The Second Sex, has ... application of the existential philosophy of her companion, Jean-Paul Sartre, to the...
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Existentialism - Wikipedia  Existentialism is a term applied to the work of certain late-19th- and 20th-century European ..... The term "existentialism" was coined by the French Catholic philosopher Gabriel .... A dramatist as well as a philosopher, Marcel found his philosophical starting point in a ...... Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age.
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Jenseits von Gut und Bose/Beyond Good and Evil ... - Book Depository  Jenseits von Gut und Bose was written by Friedrich Nietzsche and first published in 1886. It draws on and expands the ideas of his previous work, Thus Spoke...
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PHILOSOPHY - World History International  Whereas metaphysics is concerned with the underlying nature of reality, ... Names of individual objects and of classes of objects are merely ways of ... Immanuel Kant met the challenge posed by Hume by saying there was a real world .... The Roman philosopher Lucretius based his work on them in 'On the Nature of Things'.