Existentialist philosophers teach us that we alone are responsible for creating a meaningful life in an absurd and unfair world.
Standing on a cliff, a sense of disorientation and confusion cloud you. Not only are you afraid of falling, you also fear succumbing to the impulse of throwing yourself off. Nothing is holding you back. Dread, anxiety and anguish rise to the surface.
Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard describes this as a case of “existential angst” because here, at the cli...
