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roachboy · 08-31-2004, 11:12 AM

for sartre in particular, existentialism **was** an ethics.
how are "ideals" related to an ethics, if you take anything about existentialism seriously? you need to untangle some things before we can talk about much.....

the best solution to the problem of whether sartre's style of ethics is practical is in camus's novel "the fall" which i take to be a parody.

as for the lineage in asaris's post.... this comes from walter kaufman and is not a framework that really lets you say much of anything of interest about kierkegaard, nietzsche or heidegger for that matter. it leads you to reductive readings of the type that seems to have been kaufman's specialty.

as for the question: existentialism, how about it? (which started the thread).... i dont really know how to respond.
i am also unclear about the level you are wanting to play at--so could you be more clear please about what you really want to talk about?

08-31-2004, 11:12 AM	#4 (permalink)
roachboy Super Moderator Location: essex ma	for sartre in particular, existentialism was an ethics. how are "ideals" related to an ethics, if you take anything about existentialism seriously? you need to untangle some things before we can talk about much..... the best solution to the problem of whether sartre's style of ethics is practical is in camus's novel "the fall" which i take to be a parody. as for the lineage in asaris's post.... this comes from walter kaufman and is not a framework that really lets you say much of anything of interest about kierkegaard, nietzsche or heidegger for that matter. it leads you to reductive readings of the type that seems to have been kaufman's specialty. as for the question: existentialism, how about it? (which started the thread).... i dont really know how to respond. i am also unclear about the level you are wanting to play at--so could you be more clear please about what you really want to talk about? __________________ a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite Last edited by roachboy; 08-31-2004 at 11:17 AM..