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Jean-Paul Sartre When I was 18 I began to read Sartre. "Les chemins de la liberté" (Road of freedom), three volumes. I still remember so well and it is 40 years ago. And then there was "La Nausée" (The loathing). Now I try to remember how I got to......Read More

Posted on: 2008-06-01 07:59:51 | Rating:

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Jean-Paul Sartre: a second lecture Folowing Heidegger, Sartre argues that mankind is abandoned in the world. This is not to say mankind has been abandoned in the sense of 'left behind' or 'neglected' by somehting or someone. For Sartre there is nothing "out there" that......Read More

Posted on: 2008-06-03 05:14:08 | Rating:

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Jean-Paul Sartre, another lecture on him No Camus as promissed. I couldn't resist the temptation to spend more attention to Sartre. And I can give a motivation. In last lecture I mentioned the concept of 'bad faith', just like that without explaining what it means. Besides......Read More

Posted on: 2008-06-04 04:02:37 | Rating:

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Albert Camus Although Camus's name is often associated with existentialism, there is no evidence that he was ever deeply influenced by , or very interested in the doctrines of Husserl or Heidegger or even Sartre. He had a degree in philosophy and his philosophical thought was......Read More

Posted on: 2008-06-06 05:52:17 | Rating:

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Simone de Beauvoir Simone de Beauvoir is the last in the group of existentialist philosophers in my 100 list. She was a (kind of) companion of Jean-Paul Sartre and as the picture on the wall here shows, they were united after death in one grave. The central issue in the philosophy of......Read More

Posted on: 2008-06-09 04:25:15 | Rating:

| Views: 48 | Comments: 0 | Tags: to meet eachother in the emotion.....

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Simone de Beauvoir, a second lecture Simone de Beauvoir played an important role in the rise of feminism. Her books, "The Ethics of Ambiguity, (1947) " and "The Second Sex, (1949)" were unique and maybe "La deuxieme sexe" is still the bible of feminism.......Read More

Posted on: 2008-06-11 07:29:53 | Rating:

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Gottlob Frege Let me quote Gottlob Frege: " The same word is used to indicate a concept and a singular object, which is comprised in this concept. There isn't any distinction between concept and individual object. 'The horse' can refer to a singular object, but also to the......Read More

Posted on: 2008-06-16 10:30:46 | Rating:

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Gottlob Frege, a second lecture The contribution of Frege to modern philosophy and logic began with the rejection of the analysis of Aristotle of the statement as a construction of subject / predicate. In the classical approach a statement like "Socrates is wise" can be......Read More

Posted on: 2008-06-18 15:01:44 | Rating:

| Views: 32 | Comments: 0 | Tags: Language will be the main focus now....

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Bertrand Russell A rare thing, a world famous philosopher, but Bertrand Russell was such a philosopher. Maybe more because of his political and other social ideas than because of his theoretical works. However, also his philosophical works brought him international fame. He made......Read More

Posted on: 2008-06-18 15:33:50 | Rating:

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The Second Lecture on Bertrand Russell In the former lecture I gave you a sample of how Bertrand Russell used his analytical method in philosophy. I think it is interesting to begin at the beginning and listen to how Russell saw modern philosophical method. In the Herbert Spencer......Read More