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Was it Sartre or Camus who said "existence precedes cognizance"? As far as I can tell, I was born a geek - from my youngest memory. I guess that when you only
by MrTonyD 11y ago
Was it Sartre or Camus who said "existence precedes cognizance"? As far as I can tell, I was born a geek - from my youngest memory.
I guess that when you only have the "hammer" of psychology everything looks like a "nail" driven exclusively by current psychological theories.
- hiddencost 11y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existence_precedes_essence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existence_precedes_essence The quote actually has the opposite point: you are what you do, you aren't something due to being born that way.
- MrTonyD 11y agoI took it to mean that things exist - and that all the meaning is just intellectual overlay on that existence. Wasn't the famous example that meaning exists independent of words? The meaning was already there - and the word with its meaning is an overlay? (Guess there's a reason why I'm not a philosopher...)
- hiddencost 11y ago" To claim that existence precedes essence is to assert that there is no such predetermined essence to be found in humans, and that an individual's essence is defined by him or her through how he or she creates and lives his or her life. As Sartre puts it in his Existentialism is a Humanism: "man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterwards." " Disclaimer: just pulled from wikipedia.