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EXISTENTIALISM – A PRACTICAL APPROACH FOR A MODERN WORLD?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2010

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Have you ever picked up a self-help book from a bookstore and, although perhaps agreeing with its advice to take responsibility for your life and to treat other people kindly, wondered a little as to where the author's moral certaint as to how to approach the world comes from?

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2010

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1 In fact, whilst this is a fairly accurate summary of Ivan Karamazov's philosophical approach in The Brothers Karamazov, it is unclear that this quote appeared in that book or in other writings by Dostoevsky.

2 Hauser, Marc D, Moral Minds: How Nature Designed our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong (London: Little, Brown, 2006)Google Scholar.