My gripe with "existentialists" is that they assume everyone else in the world feels exactly the way they do, or that existentialism is an incurable advancement, so to speak.
I just think people misunderstand Occam's Razor, that's all.
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It's nice to have someone reference Occam. In my first encounters with Heidegger I was referred to Occam by my Latin teacher to read parts of Occam in Latin.
Of course, I had to read in English to really get it since I'm not as fluent as I'd like in latina.
You are right that it's misunderstood.
I think if one looks at existentialism as a state of being/thinking/experiencing, then it becomes more clear the way some 'existentialists' are...that this incurable advancement as you put it, is seen as a here-and-now phenomenon, which tends to go along with existentialism anyway.
Regardless, to me existentialism seems more thematic, and that it is not even possible to wear it is a helmet. On the other hand, in that it is a rejection of the abstract in favor of a more objective reading of experiences, its interpretations and power as a philosophy can change dramatically from person to person. The bonehead college student and Nietzsche are two radically different sources from which to derive a reading of existentialism in any serious light.
I'm glad you're starting to regularly update this now.
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