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228 | Skye Cleary on Existentialism and Authenticity
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Is Existentialism a Positive Philosophy?
I hear that existentialism grew out of this dread and worry that we had, like you said about Nietzsche. So is it right to say the existentialists fought against that by just buying into it? Like, yes, there isn't any objective stance for morality or meaning out there. Therefore, we can create it ourselves. Yeah, they definitely built on nature. And yeah, it does tend to be portrayed as like a gloomy philosophy because partly because Jean Paul Sartre is one of the most famous existential philosopher.
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