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Existence: Philosophy of Being
A topic hub for existence: what it means for something to exist, whether existence is a property, and how existentialist philosophy turned the question of being human into the central problem of philosophy.
A topic hub for existence — the mode of being characteristic of things and especially of persons, from existentialist analysis to the philosophy of being.
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre was a French existentialist philosopher whose analyses of freedom, bad faith, and consciousness reshaped twentieth-century thought, literature, and ethics.
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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger was a German philosopher whose Being and Time reoriented phenomenology toward the question of Being, finitude, and authentic existence in the face of death.
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