Maritain believes that such an emphasis is characteristic of any consistent Thomism; "What distinguishes authentic Thomism … is precisely the primacy which [it] accords to existence and the intuition of existential being" (ibid., p. 12).
In his discussion of the "three spheres of existence," (the three existential stages of life the aesthetic, the ethical, and the religious), he discusses humor and its close relative, irony.
Mamet's characters set up a con whenever there's something to be had, even if it's only a person's innocence — an innocence that the con artist rejects, because why should anyone get off the hook of existence without his fair share of existential disappointment?
With that I realised it was possible he feared the same things I feared: The unknowableness of existence, and the existential pressure of death.
The existence — the existential purpose — of these people strictly depends on their ceremonial utility.
They think the question stumps us by imposing an impossible explanatory demand, namely, Deduce the existence of something without using any existential premises.
But the existence of climate change represents an existential threat to the fossil-fuel industry, and the Republican Party has become, as political historian and former GOP operative Kevin Phillips writes, the vehicle for "petroleum-defined national security".
G-forces tug at them, blurring their vision and clouding their brains, so their last moments of existence are an existential mess.
Finally, Prof. Vrchlicka has refuted Kouska's argumentation saying that behind it is a "metaphysical wonderment at existence, "an existential question abt the uniqueness of individuals, ¬ at all for physics.
Among the ontological problems problems concerning existence and existential assumptions arising in logic are those of individuation and existence.
