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Existentialism is the view that the human being initially discovers itself as simply existing and must continually respond to this situation, and it is precisely this that distinguishes it from all other living beings. “Existence precedes essence.”7 This means that we are surprised by our own existence, by the fact that we find ourselves in this world. This fact as such does not give us the merest clue as to the meaning of it all, which is why Sartre takes the human mind to be a response to this predicament. The basic idea behind this thought was indeed already the guiding theme of Kant’s ...more
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I am Not a Brain: Philosophy of Mind for the 21st Century
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