Category Archives: Existentialism

So Many Religions – Why Christianity?

Posted on August 24, 2021 by Louis William Rose

My dear friend, Dr. Levitt asks, “So only the Christian Religion is the one and only true religion? Only Christians know who is the one and only God? Jews? Mormons? Hindu’s? Buddhists? Muslims? Atheists? Everyone is all wrong but Christians? … Continue reading →

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Don’t Worry – Be Happy : The Epicurean View of Death

Posted on October 15, 2013 by Louis William Rose

Originally published in the Florida Student Philosophy Blog  [1] Eccl 8:15 – Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide … Continue reading →

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Understanding Being and Time

Posted on October 7, 2013 by Louis William Rose

Originally published in the Florida Student Philosophy Blog The newborn just entered into the world, may say to herself, “I am soiled; I am hungry, and decidedly uncomfortable.  Surely, my mother knows this. Why then does she not come to … Continue reading →

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Nietzsche’s Conclusion

Posted on September 7, 2013 by Louis William Rose

Originally Published on the Florida Student Philosophy Blog Zu bald alt, zu spät klug I was a child in the sixties, aged six to sixteen, during a time when existentialism was highly celebrated as pop philosophy. Nothing could be more … Continue reading →

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Suicide and Sisyphus

Posted on November 1, 2008 by Louis William Rose

To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, Bill Shakespeare “Males take their own … Continue reading →

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