Are you searching for a deeper understanding of life? Are you seeking your personal purpose or striving for a more fulfilling ...

The aftermath of World War II spawned no identifiable Lost Generation, but it did bring a word for intellectuals to play with: existentialism. At first it appeared to be nothing but a new French ...

Long before modern life made dissatisfaction fashionable, Gustave Flaubert wrote 'Madame Bovary', a novel that captured the ...

I'm interested in three modern philosophies that overlap a lot: Existentialism, Nihilism, and Absurdism. I could be wrong here, but it seems they all start with the same idea--life doesn't have any ...

FOR some reason existentialism has an unsavory reputation. People who do not know very much about it tend to associate it with loose morals and anti-Christian sentiments. Quite the contrary is true.

In the paneled quiet of the Papal Cancelleria last fortnight, eager-eyed young priests leaned forward on elbows shiny from desk-reading; ascetic monks stretched thin necks from their lowered cowls.