Category: Existentialism

What makes a good life? Existentialists believed we should embrace freedom and authenticity

“The first effect of existentialism,” Sartre wrote in his 1946 essay Existentialism is a Humanism, “is that it puts every man in possession of himself as he is, and places the entire responsibility for his existence squarely upon his own shoulders.”

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Think big, be free, have sex … 10 reasons to be an existentialist | Books | The Guardian

The existentialists asked the essential questions – and still have much to offer us today. So don your turtleneck and make like Sartre and De Beauvoir

Source: Think big, be free, have sex … 10 reasons to be an existentialist | Books | The Guardian