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Existentialism and environmental destruction: Should polluters face criminal punishment or an existential crisis?

E3S Web of Conferences
This study examines how existentialism, which emphasizes purpose, freedom, and individual life, affects environmental harm. The study asks: should environmental polluters face only criminal penalties or existential crises as a deeper moral responsibility?
S. Imran, Apripari, Mohamad Hidayat Muhtar, Jufryanto Puluhulawa, Julisa Aprilia Kaluku, Lisnawaty W Badu   +5 more
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From Chaos to the Absurd: Existentialism for the 21st Century

Philosophies
As Sartre pointed out, philosophical questions are questions that each generation must ask themselves because only this promotes the feeling of being alive, which is especially true for existential questions closely related to time–space, the moment, and
B. Aberšek
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The Notion of Absurdity and Meaning of Life in Albert Camus Existentialism

Open Journal of Philosophy, 2020
Camus unreservedly condemned and strictly criticized and rejected suicide and existential leap because suicide is a total surrender to absurdity and a total confession that life is too much on the individual.
Ambrose Toochukwu Arinze, I. Onwuatuegwu
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Existentialism and My ‘Postwolf’ Dachshund: Authenticity in the Age of Genetic Engineering

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human genetic engineering has the potential to profoundly alter the traits of future generations, raising critical ethical questions about authenticity and identity. Essentialist perspectives reject genetic engineering, claiming it inherently compromises authenticity by deviating from a species‐typical genome.
Donrich Thaldar
wiley   +1 more source

Romano Guardini and Cornelio Fabro on Kierkegaard's Christian Humanism

The Heythrop Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how Søren Kierkegaard's theological anthropology furnished resources for reconstructing Christian humanism among mid‐twentieth‐century Catholic thinkers. Focusing on Romano Guardini (1885‐1968) in Germany and Cornelio Fabro (1911‐1995) in Italy, I demonstrate how each thinker creatively appropriated Kierkegaard's ...
Joshua Furnal
wiley   +1 more source

‘Theological Metaphysics’ and the Christological Determination of the Principle of Analogy: A Response to John Betz's Christ, the Logos of Creation

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper is a response to John Betz's book, Christ, the Logos of Creation: An Essay in Analogical Metaphysics (Emmaus Academic, 2023). The essay confines itself to answering two methodological questions, namely: Does Przywara's approach to analogy indeed represent the basic form (‘Denkform’) that analogy has ‘always assumed’ in Catholic ...
Archie J. Spencer
wiley   +1 more source

Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
wiley   +1 more source

Reading Nietzsche in an Age of Conspiracy Theories

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay considers Friedrich Nietzsche's critique of Christian morality as a template for interpreting the epistemology of modern conspiracy theorists. The first section elucidates Nietzsche's notion of ressentiment as it can be applied to contemporary conspiracism. The effectiveness of this comparative assessment thus raises the question of
J.W. Olson
wiley   +1 more source

How Existential Dependence Can Ground Existential Grounding

Dialectica, 2021
Schnieder (2020) argues, against Orilia (2009) and Koslicki (2013), that claims of existential grounding of the form “the fact that x exists is grounded in the fact that y is F" cannot be grounded in claims of existen- tial dependence of the form “x existentially depends on y” and defends the view that the latter claims are grounded in the former, via ...
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A Hyporeflective Response to the Absurd

Ratio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT If life is absurd in that we cannot help but desire the unattainable, then there is prima facie reason to lament the absurd whenever we are confronted with it. This is an intuitive idea: it is fitting to be disappointed by what is essentially disappointing.
Thom Hamer
wiley   +1 more source