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Aho, Kevin (2023), Zalta, Edward N.; Nodelman, Uri (eds.), "Existentialism", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2023ed.), Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University , retrieved 2023-10-31 This book feels surprisingly low stakes for a story involving multiple ancient god-like entities, ultimately being a supernatural murder mystery, but a fun and well done one. There's also a lot of emphasis on how the characters and their relationships with each other are changed in the wake of the events of the first book, which is another reason to be sure to read that one first. How invested you are in these characters will significantly affect how interested you'll be in half the book. Personally, my only disappointment with the book is that a little more time wasn't spent on aspects of that...I liked what was there, I just wish some of it had gone deeper. Although Martin Buber wrote his major philosophical works in German, and studied and taught at the Universities of Berlin and Frankfurt, he stands apart from the mainstream of German philosophy. Born into a Jewish family in Vienna in 1878, he was also a scholar of Jewish culture and involved at various times in Zionism and Hasidism. In 1938, he moved permanently to Jerusalem. His best-known philosophical work was the short book I and Thou, published in 1922. [67] For Buber, the fundamental fact of human existence, too readily overlooked by scientific rationalism and abstract philosophical thought, is "man with man", a dialogue that takes place in the so-called "sphere of between" ( "das Zwischenmenschliche"). [68] Sartre had traveled to Germany in 1930 to study the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, [81] and he included critical comments on their work in his major treatise Being and Nothingness. Heidegger's thought had also become known in French philosophical circles through its use by Alexandre Kojève in explicating Hegel in a series of lectures given in Paris in the 1930s. [82] The lectures were highly influential; members of the audience included not only Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, but Raymond Queneau, Georges Bataille, Louis Althusser, André Breton, and Jacques Lacan. [83] A selection from Being and Time was published in French in 1938, and his essays began to appear in French philosophy journals. Curb-Stomp Battle: Victor almost delivered one to Jessica-Shgshthx at the climax. Due to having a power that is especially suited for combat, the fight went overwhelmingly in his favour before a moment of last second hesitation cost him his victory and nearly his life.

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Power at a Price: Healing magic sounds amazingly useful, but turns out healers don't actually heal, but rather transfer their life force to another person, meaning the healer can very easily kill themselves using it. To make it even worse, the power is pleasurable, meaning not only can healers harm themselves, they are compelled to do so once they begin, which can often lead to their own death as they become unable to resist continuing to use their power. Ambiguous Gender: Leslie-Ifrig looks like Leslie was already fairly androgynous even before the usual dual-consciousness mutations. This makes their Foe Romance Subtext with Victor incredibly awkward because Victor is straight and not sure how to react. Karl Jaspers, "Philosophical Autobiography" in Paul Arthur Schilpp (ed.) The Philosophy of Karl Jaspers The Library of Living Philosophers IX, Tudor Publishing Company, 1957, p. 75/2 and following. Appignanesi, Richard (2006). Introducing Existentialism (3rded.). Thriplow, Cambridge: Icon Books (UK), Totem Books (USA). ISBN 1-84046-717-7.

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This section may be too technical for most readers to understand. Please help improve it to make it understandable to non-experts, without removing the technical details. ( November 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Honderich, Ted, ed. (1995). Oxford Companion to Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 259. ISBN 978-0-19-866132-0.

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The satire in this book is fairly light and thankfully no comparisons are drawn between magic users and any other groups. The question of how religion continues in a world where miracles can and do happen is unique. One complaint is that the mystery the story revolves around is usually less interesting than the other questions it asks and as the driving force of several characters' motivations it can affect the pace. Not bad per se but I can't help but feel these books would have a lot more pace to them if there was a clear antagonist rather than them being a whodunnit. Aborted Arc: After being told not to compromise the DEDA's neutrality between Modern Miracle and the Church of England or her contract won't be renewed, Pavarti stalks off, and it's speculated that she's going to try something rash. She spends the rest of the novel sulking in her office. Facticity is defined by Sartre in Being and Nothingness (1943) as the in-itself, which delineates for humans the modalities of being and not being. It is the facts of your personal life and as per Heidegger, it is " the way in which we are thrown into the world." This can be more easily understood when considering facticity in relation to the temporal dimension of our past: one's past is what one is, in that it co-constitutes oneself. However, to say that one is only one's past would ignore a significant part of reality (the present and the future), while saying that one's past is only what one was, would entirely detach it from oneself now. A denial of one's concrete past constitutes an inauthentic lifestyle, and also applies to other kinds of facticity (having a human body—e.g., one that does not allow a person to run faster than the speed of sound—identity, values, etc.). [40]

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For an examination of the existentialist elements within the film, see Philosophy Now, issue 102, accessible here (link), accessed 3 June 2014.

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McDonald, William (2017), "Søren Kierkegaard", in Zalta, Edward N. (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2017ed.), Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University , retrieved 2022-11-10The twist at the end of the book is extremely obvious when the characters find out the most basic information about the people involved. This is why the last paragraph is a thing. There is no narrative reason for any of it apart from to obscure what the end twist is. In comparison the twist reveal of the last book was actually well thought out. There were hints throughout the book and nothing needed to be artificially obscured to achieve it. I find it incredibly ironic that Yahtzee has made a living pointing out these kind of inconsistencies in games but doesn't apply the same standard to his own writing. Daigle, Christine (2006). Existentialist Thinkers and Ethics. McGill-Queen's University Press. p.5. despair – definition of despair by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia". Tfd.com . Retrieved 2010-03-08.

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In the very end Alison gets publicly eviscerated by the press for forcibly undoing a Demonic Possession, even though it was a clear act of immediate self-defense that saved hundreds of people. Possessed Jessica is viewed as nothing but a victim and martyr for dual-consciousness rights, with the fact that she was actively committing an explicitly racially-motivated mass murder at the time ignored by the public at large. That the original Jessica did not consent to the situation is also conveniently ignored. Existential & Psychological Movie Recommendations". Existential-therapy.com. Archived from the original on 2010-01-07 . Retrieved 2010-03-08. Cotkin, George (2005). Existential American. JHU Press. ISBN 9780801882005 . Retrieved 26 March 2015.

K. Gunnar Bergström, An Odyssey to Freedom University of Uppsala, 1983, p. 92. Colin Stanley, Colin Wilson, a Celebration: Essays and Recollections Cecil Woolf, 1988, p. 43. Sartre is committed to a radical conception of freedom: nothing fixes our purpose but we ourselves, our projects have no weight or inertia except for our endorsement of them. [27] [28] Simone de Beauvoir, on the other hand, holds that there are various factors, grouped together under the term sedimentation, that offer resistance to attempts to change our direction in life. Sedimentations are themselves products of past choices and can be changed by choosing differently in the present, but such changes happen slowly. They are a force of inertia that shapes the agent's evaluative outlook on the world until the transition is complete. [26] :5,9,66 Although nihilism and existentialism are distinct philosophies, they are often confused with one another since both are rooted in the human experience of anguish and confusion that stems from the apparent meaninglessness of a world in which humans are compelled to find or create meaning. [55] A primary cause of confusion is that Friedrich Nietzsche was an important philosopher in both fields. Many existentialists considered traditional systematic or academic philosophies, in style and content, to be too abstract and removed from concrete human experience. [6] [7] A primary virtue in existentialist thought is authenticity. [8] Existentialism would influence many disciplines outside of philosophy, including theology, drama, art, literature, and psychology. [9] a b Wartenberg, Thomas (2009). Existentialism: A Beginner's Guide. Oxford: One World. ISBN 9781780740201.