When I was in college, I was bemused by hearing kids arguing about "existentialism", etc., and the less comprehensible a statement was, the louder they talked. Kind of like the preacher who, in the notes of a sermon found by the church janitor, had scrawled in the margin at a certain point, "Argument weak; yell like hell!" What's the fuss about, anyway? What's it got to do with the price of tea in China?
2006-07-07 12:45:54 · 10 answers · asked by John (Thurb) McVey 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Philosophers and English teachers alike make a distinction between these words, because they have different meanings. Existence is a general state of being. Essence is a specific and important feature of a thing or idea. Existentialism is a branch of philosophy that, funny enough, ponders the Essence of Existence (or the meaning of life). As for how the raising of voices in fervent debate might affect the overall price of tea and furthermore the chinese economy, the world moves around the sun draped in mystery. If a butterfly flaps it's wings in Greenland, then nobody was there when the tree fell in the woods.
2006-07-07 12:48:59 · answer #1 · answered by Beardog 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wish I could find the quote... but someone once said something like this "Philosophy is an attempt by the common man to seem less common." In any case, the fact is, a large amount of people who study philosophy, do it for the wrong reasons, or simply don't really understand any of it, even if they are honestly trying to.
As far as existence and essence, I'm not sure what you're referring to, as the two are not normally referred to in the same context?
2006-07-07 12:49:55 · answer #2 · answered by rainsinger 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Essence is what makes given thing what it is. Essence includes all the charasteristics that make eg table a table: if only one of them was missing it wouldn't be a table. For example: table has to have a color (it is its essential charasteristic), but at the same time it does not matter (for the essence) what color it is (the table is the table no matter the color). Existence of this table cannot be included in its essence, because existing and non-existing (eg dreamed about) table have to have te same essence (so both are tables).
Existentialism that you've mentioned says: humans have no essence, which is supposed to mean: you are free, you can become and do whatever you want, it is all up to your decision making.
2006-07-07 13:12:18 · answer #3 · answered by jacek s 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-14 05:43:52 · answer #4 · answered by pelt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The price of tea China? I do not know the answer to that. But the question of our existence has been pondered before Chinese even began drinking tea. These question are important not because they have objective answers, but I believe because they define our perceptions of who we are, and where we come from...
As for essence I define this as the quality of something apart from its being. Whereas being is existing. =)
2006-07-07 12:57:13 · answer #5 · answered by Einstien 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No fuss to me about understanding the difference between somethings properties and its actual presence.
Totally got what you said about the preacher!
essence>
The intrinsic or indispensable properties that serve to characterize or identify something.
existence>
A mode or manner of existing
2006-07-07 12:56:02 · answer #6 · answered by fairy.efranklin 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The status of our world, reality, what have you, is far more important than some stupid fact about the global market.
If you don't think so, you'll just be a slave to the most prevailing ideologies. Your "knowledge" and mundane worries: kitch, quaint, irrelevant.
2006-07-07 13:27:38 · answer #7 · answered by -.- 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The practical difference is this: A flower exists. The scent it emits, is it's essence.
2006-07-07 15:04:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suppose "existence" may have to do with the physical entity while the "essence" has to do with the intangible, the "soul".
2006-07-07 12:49:17 · answer #9 · answered by robert43041 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To identify subtle boundaries.
2006-07-07 12:49:49 · answer #10 · answered by writer05 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋