To recognize that you are radically free, in Sartre's sense, but then to live as if you weren't, is to live in bad faith, in denial of what you know …

- David E. Cooper

The question of meaning goes all the way down: if human life as a whole is meaningless, so is everything that occurs or belongs within it. Since that…

- David E. Cooper

Like Nietzsche's own writings on education, most of mine were relatively youthful ones. Both were inspired by a critical animus against prevailing tr…

- David E. Cooper

I was keen to dispel a familiar misunderstanding: that existentialists somehow relish the alienation of human beings from the world. This may have be…

- David E. Cooper

How people make gardens is bound to reflect a way of experiencing the natural world, while at the same time this experience of nature is bound to ref…

- David E. Cooper

One thing that attracts me in Daoism and Heidegger is a delicate combination of recognizing deep differences between human being and any other kind o…

- David E. Cooper

Certainly each side - the 'absolutists' and the 'constructivists' or 'humanists', as I've labelled them - accuses the other of hubris, and lays claim…

- David E. Cooper

For me, the existentialists are important critics of 'absolutist' claims, and Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty are, at least in their later writings, also…

- David E. Cooper

There are really three players: 'absolutists', for whom it is possible to describe reality as it anyway is; 'constructivists' or 'humanists', for who…

- David E. Cooper