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228 | Skye Cleary on Existentialism and Authenticity

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Is Existentialism Compatible With It?

I think the way I want to answer this is with the idea that we, we as humans are creative nothings. And so what the existentialist focus on is that kind of creative aspect of our, of our being. That's part of the point of Jean Paul Sartre's most famous work being a nothingness. We're also beings who are setting intentions about where we want our lives to go and that sort of trajectory is never completed until death.

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