Plato began his philosophic career as the result of a conve… - William Barrett

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Plato began his philosophic career as the result of a conversion. This is surely an existential beginning.

William Barrett

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William Christopher Barrett (1913 – 1992) was a professor of philosophy at New York University from 1950 to 1979. He received his PhD at Columbia University. He was an editor of Partisan Review and later the literary critic of The Atlantic Monthly magazine. He was well known for writing philosophical works for nonexperts.

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The bomb reveals the dreadful and total contingency of human existence. Existentialism is the philosophy of the atomic age.

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Poets are witnesses to Being before the philosophers are able to bring it into thought.

Plato began his philosophic career as the result of a conversion. This is surely an existential beginning. - William Barrett

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