Episode #15: Field Notes #1: What Existentialism Gets Right — and What It Costs You

About this episode

The episode explores existentialism's evolution and relevance in modern culture, emphasizing individual choice and stillness amidst anxiety.

We trace existentialism from Kierkegaard’s pivot to the single individual before God to the secular push for meaning without God, then test what still helps in a noisy, anxious culture. We offer a grounded practice of stillness and a challenge to choose rather than drift. • what existentialism means and why it endures • Kierkegaard’s shift from systems to the single individual before God • Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, and Camus in brief • existence precedes essence and its cultural echoes •...

People in this episode

Host: Travis Mullen

Topics covered

• existentialism
• Kierkegaard
• meaning without God
• stillness
• anxiety
• cultural echoes

Keywords

• existentialism
• Kierkegaard
• meaning
• stillness
• anxiety
• Nietzsche
• Heidegger
• Sartre
• Camus

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