DE Weekly: A Christmas Carol, Humanity, & Transformation
In existentialism, there is a great emphasis placed on personal responsibility; it is important you make the right choices so you can create a life of meaning and value. At what point after a life lived in precisely the wrong way does it become too late to change the way things are?
Every Christmas, I like to watch a few of my favorite Christmas movies, most of which are closer to 100 years old than they are to today. One of those movies is A Christmas Carol (the 1938 version).
DE Weekly: Existentialism, Humanism, & Life as a Project
Existentialism sometimes has a rap for being a rather convoluted philosophy. We can assign blame to its most famous authors, I think, for that perception; Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Paul Sartre, and the like wrote in such a way that many of the philosophy’s takeaways seem abstruse to the average reader.
This being the case, if we were to pose the question, “What is Existentialism?”, where would we begin? It’s unhelpful when those like Albert Camus and even Sartre himself rejected the term “existentialist.”