William Barrett - Philosophy Quotes

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The bomb reveals the dreadful and total contingency of human existence. Existentialism is the philosophy of the atomic age.

William Barrett

Heidegger's philosophy is neither atheism nor theism, bit a description of the world from which God is absent.

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Jaspers sees the historical meaning of existential philosophy as a struggle to awaken in the individual the possibilities of an authentic and genuine life, in the face of the great modern drift toward a standardized mass society.

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As a teacher of philosophy, a very dubious profession in this country, I am in a position to observe how precarious a hold the intellect has upon American life; and this is not true merely of the great majority of students but of cultured people, of intellectuals, to whom here in America a philosophical idea is an alien and embarrassing thing. In their actual life Americans are not only a non-intellectual but an anti-intellectual people.

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