Existentialism and Sartre

Philosophy has been the subject occupying much of my time lately. It seems to directly coincide with literature, which shall always remain my primary interest.

I began peering into the seemingly infinite world of philosophy through Sartre; I found the existentialism that he coined to be rather overrated. Absurdities, dissolving the objective and object (not social) nausea are all I've adopted, but I'm glad I've discovered his work. Without Sartre's philosphies, I wouldn't have explored my own, less counterintuitive, thoughts, nor would I know why Kafka and Dostoyevsky's works are classified as vaguely existential.

My own ideas are a bit nihilistic, but much less depressing. Existence seems to have no true definition, and, from what is generally considered the (male) psycological perspective, our yearning for our own destruction or morose emotion seem obvious. However, there is one force or aspect that is rarely denoted as positive in nihlism, that, for my philosphy, is imperative to an explanation to our existence on earth consuming as much time as it does, other people. (Another idea I've played with is man's amusement from pain. Think Caligula, it could be possible man sees the parallel of his most prominent feature, life, in "things" he kills slowly. Man may enjoy seeing himself dying slowly as a wounded animal as opposed to ceasing life efficiently. [This is completely irrelevant to the idea I'm attempting to express.])

With my philosophy, superiority and inferiority cannot exist, for every existence is equally unimportant to the universe. This creates a psycology which makes interaction much easier, as we all partake in this experimental process. However, this also relies on my ideas not being universal; society needs an opposing philosophy for a classless system to exist, for people practicing my belief would look for a rational system within it. Otherwise, this is simply an aspect of Marxism which will meet the same, socially inequal, fate.