Existentialist philosophy reads as current because it answers the two largest human questions.

Evidence

This is why, when reading Sartre on freedom, Beauvoir on the subtle mechanisms of oppression, Kierkegaard on anxiety, Camus on rebellion, Heidegger on technology, or Merleau-Ponty on cognitive science, one sometimes feels one is reading the latest news. Their philosophies remain of interest, not because they are right or wrong, but because they concern life, and because they take on the two biggest human questions: what are we? and what should we do? — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 98

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distills the movement’s enduring core: the two questions ‘what are we?’ and ‘what should we do?’ frame the whole reader’s orientation project.
• XREF: connects to: Flawed existentialist thinkers remain worth studying for the questions they insist on — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 1007

Broader Connections

• Flawed existentialist thinkers remain worth studying for the questions they insist on #expands (0.75) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 1007