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Originally Posted by FruitLoop
though i couldn't care less about philosophy (thanks to horrid teachers), i thought Sartre was an existentialist........
I might be so wrong there though.....
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Originally Posted by Glice
*Edit: Sartre - Being and Nothingness
*These last two [i.e Sartre and Heidegger] I really hate but are very important to philosophy.
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You're not wrong, I do think Sartre's existentialism is one of the poorest excuses for philosophy; he is important enough to merit being read.
I should clarify - Sartre, in and of himself is not so unbearable - I merely have moderate antipathy; in and of the legion of people who read and misinterpret him I find him unbearable. He is the one that most people start on, and also the one that an overwhelming majority of new-to-philosophy types abuse for their own ends.
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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
most philosophy before nietzsche is utter shit: covert theology
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And Thus Spake Zarathustra gets away from this criticism because it's less covert? I realise he criticise theology very heavily, but lets not forget that the concept of the superman is entirely concieved through religious notions. Rarely does a philosopher get away from theology with anything approximating conviction.