The Appeal of Existentialist Thinkers

The speakers discuss their attraction to existentialist thinkers such as Sartre, Simone Boveour, and Camus. They highlight Sartre's idea of everyone having a fundamentally free core and the appeal it had when they felt out of control in their own lives. They also talk about the existentialists' emphasis on authenticity and how it stems from a historical context of questioning authority and the rise of secular communities.