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To: cosmicforce who wrote (480287)	9/29/2021 9:19:01 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541201

I don't think modern existentialists eschew science and mathematics. Both Nietzsche and Kierkegaard lived a long time ago in the early days of modern thought. Although I do think Nietzsche was one of the smartest people to ever live and was a great mentor to me when young. And I have never agreed with people calling Kierkegaard an existentialist, he was a Christian and that involves dogmatic essence, a true existentialist would never agree about. The idea of existentialism is that the person defines reality based on their own experiences and the context, i.e. there is no absolute anything e.g. the moon is also a lot of atoms. <Kierkegaard and Nietzsche [...] focused on subjective human experience *rather than the objective truths of mathematics and science, which they believed were too detached or observational to truly get at the human experience*.