Word: existentialist
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...participation by so many of Sartre's other characters, and suicide always follows their conversion as it does Frantz's. Yet Sartre still clings to both philosophies. For Frantz in the end escapes mauvaise-foi, his refusal to accept the reality of his past, and his last words are existentialist in tone: "I have been! I ... took my century on my shoulders and said: I am responsible...
...classical Christian moralist, the teachings of the church are moral imperatives that apply always and everywhere to men faced with an ethical decision. To the modern-day existentialist, all guidelines are irrelevant; he argues that any authentic decision must arise spontaneously from man's inner sense of what the moment demands. To day, a number of Christian theologians expound a third way-halfway between the two previous paths-which they call "situation" or "contextual" ethics...
...work be cause, said he, "I am curious to know why I fail." None of his human figures, he felt, captured what he saw. None could-for what he saw was the fleeting essence of man. It is no surprise that Jean-Paul Sartre celebrated him as the ideal existentialist artist. Somewhere be hind the plaster contours of his stick figures lay the truth of man's mortality. "I know," said Giacometti, "with absolute, unshakable certainty that I can never succeed in reproducing what I see, even if I live to be a thousand." At his death last week...
...reality. In The Conditions of Philosophy, a current examination of the discipline, Mortimer Adler charges that the analytic thinkers abandon "first-order questions" that metaphysics used to ask-such as the nature of being, causation, free will-and are concerned mostly with second-order problems of method. The existentialists, on the other hand, continue to ask large-size questions, but because of their man-centered approach they are indifferent to systematic thinking. Thus, for both movements, a question such as "What is truth?" becomes impossible to answer. The logical positivist would say that a particular statement of fact...
...society has doubled since 1955, Evangelical theologians sometimes admit that they feel like voices crying in the wilderness. "Never has theology stood in more public disrepute than it does today," laments Carl Henry. "The ecumenical dialogue accords a prominent platform to all sorts of theologians-secular, linguistic, dialectical, existentialist-while the theology of historic Protestantism is seemingly boycotted as if it were a heresy, and the only heresy at that." Nonetheless, Evangelicals remain confident that their belief in God's infallible word is the only way for Protestantism to remain true to its history and spiritual heritage...