It’s the 202nd birthday of Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (pictured). He’s best known as the first existentialist philosopher, but he was also active in many other fields, including the writing of fiction. According to the Writer’s Almanac: He published many …
Tag: Existentialism
Environmentalism and 20th Century Philosophy
Existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (pictured here) was born on this day in 1905. When I’m asked to define the subject, I say that existentialism is the doctrine that we live in a universe that has no meaning–one that is coldly …
Riddles of Matter, Energy, Space, and Time
I remember the first evening of a course in existentialism I had 37 years ago this fall, in which I asked the professor, “According to (Nobel prize-winner and existentialist superstar) Albert Camus, ‘suicide is the only valid philosophical question,’ implying …
Tagged with: Albert Camus, Brian Greene, Descartes, energy, Existentialism, Socrates, superstring theory, TED Talks, The Fabric of the Cosmos
