Defensive pessimism is a strategy that is used to deal with fear and is often part of a nihilistic worldview. Existentialism offers a better and more realistic alternative.

Imagine a piece of bread,” says Elizabeth McQueen, a postdoctoral fellow at UC Davis working on the Mellon ...

He owed his academic career to Edmund Husserl, who more than anyone else originated existentialist thinking with his call for the direct study of human experience – phenomenology – to be accepted as ...

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Nihilistic thinking tends to be concrete, and the individual tends to be cynical and closed-minded. Existential thinking, on the other hand, says that we participate in creating truth (i.e., we ...

It's rather apt that next week, France will be hosting the AI Action Summit.After all, if anyone brought existentialism - or, rather, existentialisme - to the forefront and campus conversations, it ...

But Chopra affirms that existential anxiety is a species of ... and promising” solution lies within us, he suggests, as thinking beings, in our minds. With the help of meditation and mindfulness ...

We will demonstrate the profound influence of Shakespeare on two foundational existentialist thinkers (Kierkegaard’s theistic and Nietzsche’s atheistic existentialism thought) and one paradigmatic ...

A study of several thinkers in the existential tradition, which has its origin in the 19th century writings of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and includes such 20th century authors as Heidegger and Camus, ...