The Wall (1939) is a collection of five short stories written by Jean-Paul Sartre. The title story, “The Wall,” is one of the most famous examples of Sartre’s conception of the absurd. Set during the ...

The Age Of reason” (Knopf) is the first novel of Jean-Paul Sartre’s to be translated into English. It is the first installment of a trilogy under the general title “The Roads to Freedom,” of which the ...

In my opening address at the first International Conference on Existential Psychology held in Nanjing, China, in 2010, I stated, “Existential psychology began in the West, but it does not belong to ...

The "truth" of the Christian worldview was shaken by the Enlightenment, scientific progress, and biblical criticism. When Nietzsche declared the "death of God," the foundation for universal morality ...

The term existentialism may call to mind smoke-filled French coffee houses and over-educated intellectuals. But humanities scholar Damazio Mfune-Mwanjakwa argues that Malawian parables, songs, and ...

The rapid advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have introduced a new era of decision-making, sparking ethical dilemmas that demand philosophical scrutiny. Jean-Paul Sartre’s existentialism, ...

JRPGs often explore existential themes like identity and fate, challenging players with cosmic horrors and gods. Titles like Parasite Eve, Final Fantasy 7, and Nier: Automata delve into deep ...

In 1938, while sitting in a cafe on the Boulevard Saint-Michel in Paris, Jean-Paul Sartre experienced a pivotal moment of revelation that would shape his philosophical thinking. Reflecting on the ...

In 2020, a team of researchers found something surprising in the high clouds of Venus. Earth-based telescopes detected the spectral signature of phosphine, a simple molecule that should have no ...

How do we live good, fulfilling lives? Aristotle first took on this question in his Nicomachean Ethics – arguably the first time anyone in Western intellectual history had focused on the subject as a ...