Existentialism General

Who talks about the idea of meaning existing a priori and that it need only be shaped into a form that can be acted upon?

Sartre, Jean-Paul. Even more awful than Camus.

>>9134911

This sounds difficult.

Does anyone know in which work Kierkegaard basically says we need to find our own meaning in life? Was it Fear and Trembling?

>>9135839
I don't know if Kierkegaard said that we have to find our own meaning. That sounds close to relativism, and he was always a Christian.

Rather than finding the meaning in life, Kierkegaard's writing always seemed to me to be more about doing the right thing.

>>9135878

There is someone in existentialism that said we must find our own meaning in life. I think it was Victor Frankl. He coined logotherapy but was very heavily influenced by Kierkegaard.

>>9134911
That's what Sartre describes (with the example of a paper knife) in order to distinguish clearly his own thought from it. It refers more or less to Aristotle, but also to any traditional religious view.

>>9135884
>There is someone in existentialism that said we must find our own meaning in life.

Yeah, pretty much every existentialist.

This is off topic but I am almost halfway done an essay for my existentialism course. Would anyone be open to give me their thoughts on my drunken pseudo intellectual drivel?

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Existentialism is for people who fell for the human condition meme and don't realize existential dread comes from the socio-econonic circumstances they live under.

>>9136043

H-Hegel, is it you?

>>9136039
sure

>>9136043
interesting but no but worth an essay

>>9136060

cool, got a throwaway email?

>>9136067
[email protected]

>>9136084

thanks. I'll send it to you when I get home maybe 20-30 minutes

>>9134935
go away vladimir

>>9136086

lel

>>9135839
Kierkegaard says that despair comes from a lack of belief in the Christian God

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>>9134855
>>9136043
Existentialism and Marxism are for people who fell for the blank slate meme and don't realize nihilistic angst comes from the genetic inferiority they're endowed with.

>>9136084

sent

>>9136130

2Darwinian4me

>>9136152
got it and sent a few notes. Didn't know Frankl at all. Also I forgot to say that perhaps the "existential crisis" appears a bit abruptly in the essay, as if you didn't want to explain it a lil more, that may be slightly frustrating.