Concept
Existence
Overview
ability of an entity to interact with physical or mental reality
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This universal stands in direct relationship to the particular and to the existence of the world as manifested. The first thing implied in what has been said, is that the particular existence has no independence, is not true in and for itself, but is only an accidental modification. But the affirmative point of view is that all other things proceed from the one, that the one remains thereby the substance from which…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
Names Existence several times; states what Existence is.
Correspondence of reference here is as obvious as correlation of existence. In the logical process, the datum is not just real existence, and the idea mere psychical unreality. Both are modes of existence--one of _given_ existence, the other of _mental_ existence. And if the mental existence is in such cases regarded, from the standpoint of the unified experience aimed at, as having only _possible_ value, the datum…
John Dewey, Studies in Logical Theory
Names Existence several times; states what Existence is.
In actuality this unity is explicitly put, and the two sides of the relation identified. Hence the actual is exempted from transition, and its externality is its energising. In that energising it is reflected into itself: its existence is only the manifestation of itself, not of an other. Actuality and thought (or Idea) are often absurdly opposed.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Logic of Hegel
Names Existence several times; states what Existence is.
Philosophers who discussed Existence
- Francisco Suárez
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Bernard Lonergan
- Étienne Gilson
- Avicenna
- Heraclitus
- Mulla Sadra
- Zeno of Elea
- Jürgen Habermas
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Eric Voegelin
- Leo Strauss
- Martin Buber
- John Anderson (philosopher)
- Numenius of Apamea
- Gianni Vattimo
- Duns Scotus
- Martin Heidegger
- Plotinus
- Alexius Meinong
- Paul Tillich
- György Lukács
- Jean-Luc Nancy
- Paul Weiss (philosopher)
Related ideas
- Empiricism
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- First-order logic
- God in Christianity
- Mind–body problem
- African philosophy
- Avicenna
- Natural kind
- Ancient philosophy
- Anaximander
- George Berkeley
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Outline of ancient India
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Philosophical realism
- Homer
- Western philosophy
- Heraclitus
- Law of identity
- Mulla Sadra
- Immanuel Kant
- Al-Ghazali
- Eastern philosophy
- Vedas
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of philosophy.
Narrower topics:
- Accident (philosophy)
- Actualism
- Existence precedes essence
- Fiction
- Mulla Sadra
- Nothing
- Number
- One Thousand and One Nights
- Purusha
- Santa Claus
- Sherlock Holmes
- Singular term
- Space
- Subjunctive possibility
- Taoist philosophy
- Time
- Empire State Building
- Fundamental ontology
- Bigfoot
- Free logic
- Acorn
- Saccidānanda
- Elm
- Feminist existentialism