Category talk:Existentialists

Missing persons

Has anyone reviewed the list of existentialist philosophers here?

The Wikipedea Category for Existentialists has surprisingly few entries.

As a start, Friedrich Nietzsche who is responsible for many of the ideas that inspired later existentialist writings, should surely be included here.

I would love to hear from others who take an interest in existentialist thought.

Akiva Quinn, 17 June 2005

I'm not so much a fan of adding Nietzsche to this category, simply because he was not an existentialist. If anything, adding him to Category: Existentialism might be appropriate. You're right, though, there are a lot of people missing. -Seth Mahoney 00:09, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

What about Søren Kierkegaard? He's pretty much the founder of Existentialism. Poolboy8 (talk) 00:50, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

While he did deny the title of existentialist, most philosophers would still consider Albert Camus one. His philosophy of the absurd, and of creating our own meaning for life, seems to contain several principles of the loosely defined philosophy. (74.96.112.70 (talk) 22:35, 23 August 2009 (UTC))

Please delete Heidegger from this list

It is a sorry sight to see that some Wikipedians have fallen into a common trap of thinking of Martin Heidegger as an existentialist. He himself denied that he was an existentialist, insisting that his quest to understand "human being" was only part of a quest to understand ontology in general. It would be more accurate to refer to Heidegger as an "existential phenomenologist" (this would show how his phenonomenology differed from the transcendental phenomenology of Edmund Husserl). ACEOREVIVED (talk) 23:26, 9 July 2009 (UTC)