https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/tags/existentialism/ Recent content in Existentialism on Philosophy in Summary — Thinkers & Syntheses Hugo en Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/artigos/sartre-freedom-bad-faith-existence-precedes-essence/ Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/artigos/sartre-freedom-bad-faith-existence-precedes-essence/ The ontology of the in-itself and the for-itself in Being and Nothingness, radical freedom, bad faith, and the look of the Other in Jean-Paul Sartre's thought. https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/artigos/kierkegaard-stages-of-existence-anxiety-leap-of-faith/ Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/artigos/kierkegaard-stages-of-existence-anxiety-leap-of-faith/ The aesthetic, ethical, and religious stages, anxiety as the dizziness of freedom, despair, and the leap of faith in Kierkegaard, the father of existentialism. https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/artigos/simone-de-beauvoir-second-sex-existentialist-feminism/ Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/artigos/simone-de-beauvoir-second-sex-existentialist-feminism/ Beauvoir as a philosopher in her own right: the ethics of ambiguity, woman as the Other, and the thesis that one is not born but becomes a woman in The Second Sex. https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/artigos/existentialism-philosophy-freedom-sartre-heidegger-kierkegaard/ Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/artigos/existentialism-philosophy-freedom-sartre-heidegger-kierkegaard/ A comprehensive overview of existentialism: from Kierkegaard to Sartre, through Heidegger, Jaspers, Camus, and Beauvoir — existence, freedom, anguish, and authenticity. https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/artigos/structure-of-reality-philosophical-traditions/ Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/artigos/structure-of-reality-philosophical-traditions/ A panoramic journey through philosophy's most fundamental question — what is reality? — from the Pre-Socratics to quantum physics, through Plato, Aristotle, medievalism, rationalism, idealism, materialism, phenomenology, and analytic philosophy. https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/camus/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/camus/ Born in 1913 in French Algeria, into a poor settler (pied-noir) family, Albert Camus lost his father in infancy, in the First World War, and was raised by… https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/gerd-bornheim/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/gerd-bornheim/ Gerd Bornheim (1929–2002): Brazilian philosopher, interpreter of existentialism, phenomenology and dialectics, and scholar of the Pre-Socratics. https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/sartre/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/sartre/ Philosopher, novelist, and playwright, Jean-Paul Sartre was born in Paris in 1905 and trained at the École Normale Supérieure, where he met Simone de… https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/karl-jaspers/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/karl-jaspers/ German psychiatrist and philosopher, one of the central figures of the philosophy of existence alongside Heidegger and Kierkegaard. He moved from… https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/heidegger/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/heidegger/ Martin Heidegger was born in Meßkirch, in southern Germany, in 1889, into a modest Catholic family, and came to philosophy by way of theology. Assistant… https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/nikolai-berdiaev/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/nikolai-berdiaev/ Nikolai Berdyaev (1874–1948): Russian religious philosopher, the 'Christian existentialist,' thinker of primordial freedom, the person, and creativity, expelled from Soviet Russia in 1922. https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/simone-de-beauvoir/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/simone-de-beauvoir/ French philosopher; intellectual companion of Sartre. Founder of existentialist feminism. The Second Sex is one of the most influential books of the 20th… https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/kierkegaard/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/kierkegaard/ Danish philosopher; the "father of existentialism". Wrote frequently under pseudonyms to present opposing perspectives. His philosophy is a reaction to…