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Kierkegaard and Sartre: Philosophies

is a body, "more numerous than the people which compose it," but it can "never be shown" because it is simply an abstraction (Kier...

Jean Paul Sartre, Taxi Driver Film, and Existentialism

In five pages existentialism is examined and then discussed within the context of Martin Scorsese's film Taxi Driver and Jean Paul...

Exile in Works of American Literature

In five pages this paper applies Nietzsche's Existentialism to an analysis of exile in The Awakening by Kate Chopin and A Streetca...

A Personality Analysis

will not grow without sunlight and water" (Humanist Theory, 2002). Brief Overview of Behaviorist Theory Behaviorism reli...

Existentialism and Albert Camus

explanation, and ultimately irrational," but he also "considered life valuable and worth defending. While the American public thou...

Film The Matrix and the Philosophies of Rene Descartes and Jean Paul Sartre

the world, but only derive essence later. In other words, a human is nothing to start with, and the essence of the person comes fr...

Education Philosophies

individual study has its place. I think there needs to be a balance in the curriculum, although, I do agree with Deweys integratio...

Existentialism and Experiential Knowledge

existentialism relies on experiential knowledge. II. Themes of Existentialism Existentialism is simply a word used to describ...

Tillich, Frankl, Others

This essay discusses the beginning of existentialism, what it is, the key theories, who contributed, and the primary purposes of t...

Education Philosophies

In fourteen pages this paper examines the philosophies of postmodernism, Marxism, existentialism, analytic, reconstructionism, beh...

Wholeness and Self Awareness

restricted in its understanding. At the very core of personhood is a sense of being. From that single source stems all other qua...

American Psychology - Considering Three Streams

also divides Humanistic Psychology into three divisions: transpersonal psychology, somatic and experiential therapies and radical ...

Development of Existentialist Theme in The Flies and No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre

In ten pages this paper discusses how existentialism is thematically presented in these plays by Jean Paul Sartre. Five sources a...

The Guest 3 by Albert Camus

want to play God. But Balducci insists; regardless of what Daru chooses to do with the prisoner afterwards, Balducci is leaving th...

Existentialism and Ingmar Bergman's Persona

In about seventeen pages this Ingmar Bergman film is analyzed in terms of existentialism and its role. Seven sources are cited in...

Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction and Existentialism

In ten pages existentialism is examined in a consideration of the philosophies of Nietzsche, Camus, and Sartre and then applies th...

Analysis of Film and Existentialism

In ten pages this research paper explores how the existentialism philosophy has been incorporated into global cinema with an exami...

Existential Psychology and Existentialism

In twelve pages this research paper considers existential psychology and existentialism in an examination of definitions and writi...

Life and its Meaning

In five pages this paper examines life's meaning in a consideration of such philosophies as Albert Camus' French existentialism, s...

Jean Paul Sartre's 'The Wall' and Existentialism

In four pages Sartre's short story is examined in terms of how existentialism is contained within. There are no sources listed....

Pedro Paramo's Character

so affable to the outside world but toward their families are tyrannical and hateful. Rather, Paramos tyranny extended to all ove...

Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage and Existentialism

In 12 pages the ways in which Crane's novel reflects the principles that would later become known as the philosophy existentialism...

The Absurd

philosophers and playwrights, addressed themselves to the reality of the absurdity of life and argued that that its reality should...

Epochs

knowledge has long been purported as the only viable means by which mankind truly knows how and if something exists; without empir...

Jean Paul Sartre's Existentialism Revealed in His Play No Exit

difficult to define as it is a philosophy that originated with one philosopher (Kierkegaard) but has been embraced by a good numbe...

Existentialism vs Humanism

Numerous theories have been purported in an attempt to explain human personality. Existentialist and...

Man's Search for Meaning and Existentialism

of their circumstances and wonder "how such a thing could happen" (Frankl, 2006). Nextly, the prisoners would descend into a state...

Absurdity and Existentialism in Adams' Hitch Hiker's Guide

arise out of unexpected and irrational contradictions faced by the main characters on virtually every page. The absurdity is not j...

E.B. White, John Cheever, and Existentialism

In four pages this paper discusses how existentialist thought manifests itself in the short stories 'The Door' by E.B. White and '...

Literary Analysis of Existentialism

The first task at hand in our study is the provision of a historical explanation of existentialism. A concise explanation is prov...