Talk:Introduction to Philosophy/Existentialism

Well, content of this page is fair enough. I can't see why it is put under the broader title 'ethics' however. Like Sartre's Being and Nothingness, which I consider to be one of the core texts of existentialism, has the subtitle An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology. If no-one objects, I might soon move this page to a different chapter of the textbook.

--publunch 09:38, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

It's worth noting that most existentialists - including Sartre who first coined the term - would reject that they were part of a 'movement'. Kierkegaard didn't call himself an existentialist, and it wasn't until the 20th Century that people used that term in reference to him. - Tom M

"Apathy" is a misnomer as used in "One existentialist feeling is nausea, another is apathy." Existentialism might seem at first to condone a nihilistic lifestyle, but an apathetic existentialist is failing to be an existentialist. --Mute.prophet 12:18, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

I thought that "Nothing is real, all is permissible" was originally attributed (falsely) as the last words of Hassan-i Sabbah by a historian of the period. Neither existentialist. ~ 24.130.102.249 (talk) 00:12, 11 February 2009 (UTC)