現代存在主義的歷史基礎探索

Exploring the Historical Bases of Modern Existentialism

艾布蘭(Abram Antler)

指導教授 ： 唐格理

國立臺灣大學/文學院/外國語文學研究所/博士(2016年)

https://doi.org/10.6342/NTU201600377

摘要

這項研究是探討關於西方社會，從中世紀社會，到路德宗教改革，到加繆，對於人類存在這一主題，其思想上的轉變。

關鍵字

存在 ； 中世紀時期 ； 路德宗教改革 ； 克爾凱郭爾 ； 海德格爾 ； 薩特 ； 加繆

並列摘要

Perhaps the biggest challenge in life is to find one’s place. Any time literature and philosophy are combined, the end result deals with conscious experiences, individuals trying to find their place, and perhaps even a battle with tremendous uncertainties, especially in dealing with life and death matters. Also, forming an identity when we are individuals is a challenge and discovering the truth is literally a lifelong goal and ambition. The reason for both these aspects of humankind is because every waking moment we have is based on our subjective experiences. There is no branch of both literature and philosophy alike that deals with this matter better than existentialism. But how can one define existentialism and how can one tell it apart from other kinds of literature? These two questions are difficult to answer and on many levels.

This following dissertation begins with the philosophy of the Catholic medieval tradition that spans from 354 AD to approximately 1347 AD, then focuses on the Lutheran Reformation and its effects on the Western intellectual landscape, and finally, focuses on the modern philosophical and literary period that starts with Sø ren Kierkegaard and ends with Albert Camus.

The efforts in this work are to demonstrate that in Western thought, God was central to human existence during the medieval period, God shifted to being peripheral during the Reformation and just after, and God’s existence was questioned, ignored, and even denied during the modern period.

並列關鍵字

Existentialism ； medieval period ； Lutheran reform ； Kierkegaard ； Heidegger ； Sartre ； Camus

參考文獻

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