Archive - Existential Comics

A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

Philosophers:

1723 – 1790 Adam Smith ( 280, 337)
801 – 873 Al Kindi ( 96, 237)
1058 – 1111 Al-Ghazali ( 71, 126)
973 – 1057 Al-Ma'arri ( 241)
1913 – 1960 Albert Camus ( 30, 35, 41, 58, 68, 72, 79, 83, 85, 90
99, 104, 107, 109, 110, 127, 140, 152, 162, 168
172, 180, 187, 193, 211, 225, 226, 230, 246, 254
260, 301, 330, 331, 421)
1861 – 1947 Alfred North Whitehead ( 374)
1901 – 1983 Alfred Tarski ( 232)
1889 – 1970 Amadeo Bordiga ( 195)
610 B.C. – 546 B.C. Anaximander ( 216)
585 B.C. – 527 B.C. Anaximendis ( 216)
1944 – present Angela Davis ( 349)
1033 – 1109 Anselm of Canterbury ( 83)
384 B.C. – 322 B.C. Aristotle ( 55, 107, 113, 118, 242, 277, 305)
1788 – 1860 Arthur Schopenhauer ( 40, 56, 102, 127, 194, 213, 237, 160, 256, 269
281, 299, 356, 378, 396)
354 – 430 Augustine of Hippo ( 78, 205, 258, 262)
1126 – 1198 Averroes (Ibn Rushd) ( 71, 126, 250)
980 – 1037 Avicenna (Ibn-Sina) ( 71, 267)
1905 – 1982 Ayn Rand ( 77, 37, 136, 186, 234, 258, 364)
1632 – 1677 Baruch Spinoza ( 43, 59, 103, 104, 134, 250, 317)
1872 – 1970 Bertrand Russell ( 3, 6, 26, 28, 65, 74, 83, 89, 90, 92
115, 146, 149, 191, 196, 245, 292, 304, 342, 365
381, 401, 416)
480 – 534 Boethius ( 156)
1875 – 1961 Carl Jung ( 380)
1839 – 1914 Charles Sander Peirce ( 115)
551 B.C. – 479 B.C. Confucius ( 35)
365 B.C. – 285 B.C. Crates of Thebes ( 179)
1942 – present Dan Dennett ( 59, 64, 67)
1966 – present David Benatar ( 96, 253)
1966 – present David Chalmers ( 59, 67, 369)
1862 – 1943 David Hilbert ( 36)
1711 – 1776 David Hume ( 3, 39, 51, 65, 92, 93, 122, 162, 183, 202
205, 212, 231, 267, 276, 330, 405)
1941 – 2001 David Lewis ( 156, 177)
460 B.C. – 370 B.C. Democritus ( 97, 129, 181, 250, 362)
1942 – 2017 Derek Parfit ( 64, 107)
412 B.C. – 323 B.C. Diogenes of Sinope ( 31, 55, 179, 219)
490 – 420 Diotima of Mantinea ( 363)
1917 – 2003 Donald Davidson ( 104, 270)
1944 – present Donna Haraway ( 305)
1729 – 1797 Edmund Burke ( 116, 131, 160, 305)
1927 – present Edmund Gettier ( 177)
1859 – 1938 Edmund Husserl ( 367)
1869 – 1940 Emma Goldman ( 159, 345, 389)
55 – 135 Epictetus ( 102, 130, 151, 201, 264, 271, 286, 324, 338, 355)
341 B.C. – 270 B.C. Epicurus ( 47, 55, 57, 82, 86, 121, 133, 143, 182, 198)
1900 – 1980 Erich Fromm ( 257)
1561 – 1626 Francis Bacon ( 183, 319, 404)
1925 – 1961 Frantz Fanon ( 175, 402)
1883 – 1924 Franz Kafka ( 16, 79)
1820 – 1895 Friedrich Engels ( 148, 203, 366, 389)
1899 – 1992 Friedrich Hayek ( 186)
1844 – 1900 Friedrich Nietzsche ( 19, 35, 56, 69, 75, 77, 79, 86, 87, 88
90, 102, 107, 146, 150, 161, 176, 208, 217, 242
273, 282, 309, 316, 311, 360, 409, 417)
1821 – 1881 Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( 45, 79, 88, 107, 113, 139, 236, 399)
1919 – 2001 G.E.M. Anscombe ( 32, 116, 190, 258, 334)
563 B.C. – 483 B.C. Gautama Buddha ( 51, 102, 226, 231, 269, 405)
1845 – 1918 Georg Cantor ( 45)
1770 – 1831 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ( 35, 40, 74, 176, 207, 221, 281, 302, 307, 312
319, 348)
1685 – 1756 George Berkeley ( 26, 47, 57, 82, 88, 121, 183, 182, 198, 250)
1925 – 1995 Gilles Deleuze ( 96)
Infinity B.C. – 1882 God ( 22, 56, 81, 147)
485 B.C. – 380 B.C. Gorgias ( 128)
1646 – 1716 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ( 43, 47, 57, 59, 82, 84, 103, 104, 108, 121
143, 173, 182, 200, 198, 250, 369, 374)
1848 – 1925 Gottlob Frege ( 28, 36, 65, 80, 146, 268)
1906 – 1975 Hannah Arendt ( 32, 68, 190, 199)
1879 – 1934 Hans Hahn ( 170)
1817 – 1862 Henry David Thoreau ( 120)
1838 – 1900 Henry Sidgwick ( 258)
535 B.C. – 475 B.C. Heraclitus ( 95, 97, 129, 181, 250, 362)
1898 – 1979 Herbert Marcuse ( 257)
1820 – 1903 Herbert Spencer ( 280, 370)
1926 – 2016 Hilary Putnam ( 104, 265)
360 – 415 Hypatia of Alexandria ( 95, 163, 237)
1724 – 1804 Immanuel Kant ( 3, 23, 26, 35, 39, 47, 57, 63, 65, 68
82, 92, 103, 121, 122, 143, 162, 176, 182, 202
258, 250, 293, 298, 334, 355, 369, 374, 414)
1643 – 1727 Isaac Newton ( 84)
1861 – 1947 J.L. Austin ( 89, 171, 268)
1930 – 2004 Jacques Derrida ( 23, 35, 146, 167, 182, 185, 224, 257)
1901 – 1981 Jacques Lacan ( 167)
1844 – 1916 James Guillaume ( 366)
1929 – 2007 Jean Baudrillard ( 35)
1295 – 1358 Jean Buridan ( 78)
1905 – 1980 Jean Paul Sartre ( 3, 17, 23, 35, 41, 46, 51, 52, 58, 65
68, 72, 79, 85, 87, 96, 105, 101, 107, 140
144, 152, 155, 166, 172, 178, 187, 193, 197, 215
220, 235, 244, 254, 248, 288, 295, 317, 322, 331
333, 354, 361, 393, 410, 411)
1924 – 1998 Jean-Francois Lyotard ( 224, 392)
1712 – 1778 Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 34, 211, 280, 379)
1748 – 1832 Jeremy Bentham ( 26, 60, 68, 139, 236, 273, 283, 303, 325, 376)
1762 – 1814 Johann Gottlieb Fichte ( 176, 207, 221, 298)
1632 – 1704 John Locke ( 90, 183, 211, 280, 318, 390)
1921 – 2002 John Rawls ( 37, 38, 119, 199, 350)
1932 – present John Searle ( 277)
1807 – 1873 John Stuart Mill ( 77, 107, 236, 325)
1956 – present Judith Butler ( 32, 86)
1929 – 2020 Judith Jarvis Thomson ( 376)
1854 – 1938 Karl Kautsky ( 136)
1818 – 1883 Karl Marx ( 19, 35, 37, 49, 74, 90, 112, 119, 77, 136
138, 148, 154, 165, 173, 186, 195, 203, 234, 240
243, 263, 266, 280, 307, 313, 317, 320, 326, 334
366, 376, 383, 389)
1902 – 1994 Karl Popper ( 49, 89, 285, 358)
1906 – 1978 Kurt Godel ( 36, 45)
1828 – 1910 Leo Tolstoy ( 107)
1861 – 1937 Lou Salome ( 150, 208)
1804 – 1872 Ludwig Feuerbach ( 148)
1889 – 1951 Ludwig Wittgenstein ( 6, 7, 26, 28, 65, 80, 89, 90, 94, 108
117, 141, 170, 184, 198, 245, 252, 250, 268, 275
279, 284, 290, 292, 308, 321, 365, 375, 378, 381
405, 408)
480 B.C. – 408 B.C. Mahavira ( 113)
1135 – 1204 Maimonides ( 22)
121 – 180 Marcus Aurelius ( 48, 86, 151)
1740 – 1814 Marquis de Sade ( 104)
1889 – 1976 Martin Heidegger ( 26, 51, 52, 72, 79, 87, 127, 226, 242)
1919 – 2018 Mary Midgley ( 294)
1924 – 2019 Mary Warnock ( 413)
1759 – 1797 Mary Wollstonecraft ( 116, 131, 190, 237)
1908 – 1961 Maurice Merleau-Ponty ( 139, 166, 135, 235)
1895 – 1973 Max Horkheimer ( 257)
1806 – 1856 Max Stirner ( 77, 86, 148, 209, 273)
1925 – 2011 Michael Dummett ( 88)
1926 – 1984 Michel Foucault ( 23, 35, 135, 146, 167, 175, 224, 249, 303, 343
352, 410)
1814 – 1876 Mikhail Bakunin ( 159, 165, 195, 247, 345, 366)
1533 – 1592 Montaigne ( 93)
1882 – 1936 Moritz Schlick ( 30, 170, 252, 275, 374)
1926 – 1995 Murray Rothbard ( 234)
1906 – 1998 Nelson Goodman ( 2, 30, 51)
1469 – 1527 Niccolo Machiavelli ( 34, 169, 415)
1638 – 1715 Nicolas Malebranche ( 78, 103)
1926 – present Noam Chomsky ( 64, 175)
1882 – 1945 Otto Neurath ( 170, 252, 275)
515 B.C. – 460 B.C. Parmenides ( 95, 107, 129, 200, 181, 397)
1842 – 1921 Peter Kropotkin ( 155, 159, 247, 345, 389)
1946 – present Peter Singer ( 3, 8, 64, 139, 236, 253)
1920 – 2010 Philippa Foot ( 32, 60, 106, 376)
1930 – 2002 Pierre Bourdieu ( 135)
1809 – 1865 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ( 345)
428 B.C. – 348 B.C. Plato ( 44, 47, 55, 57, 82, 121, 122, 129, 143, 179
182, 198, 219, 223, 222, 233, 250, 323, 344, 369
385, 406)
204 – 270 Plotinus ( 12, 250)
490 B.C. – 420 B.C. Protagoras ( 68, 76, 128, 137)
360 B.C. – 270 B.C. Pyrrho ( 4, 68, 93, 143)
570 B.C. – 495 B.C. Pythagoras ( 95, 118, 189, 181, 362)
1803 – 1882 Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 120)
1596 – 1650 Rene Descartes ( 3, 68, 81, 86, 93, 103, 134, 155, 183, 188
205, 214, 242, 227, 250, 375, 398)
1931 – 2007 Richard Rorty ( 96, 218)
1938 – 2002 Robert Nozick ( 38, 119, 159)
1933 – present Robert Paul Wolff ( 350)
1915 – 1980 Roland Barthes ( 138, 318)
1871 – 1919 Rosa Luxemburg ( 195, 234)
1891 – 1970 Rudolf Carnap ( 19, 28, 30, 35, 49, 80, 89, 146, 170, 252
268, 275, 358, 374, 401, 408, 413)
1207 – 1273 Rumi ( 71)
1906 – 1989 Samuel Beckett ( 35, 45, 79)
1940 – present Saul Kripke ( 277)
4 – 65 Seneca the Younger ( 179, 334)
160 – 210 Sextus Empiricus ( 93)
1856 – 1939 Sigmund Freud ( 19, 26, 34, 49, 138, 171, 173, 255, 285, 355
380)
1909 – 1943 Simone Weil ( 116, 190, 307, 331)
1908 – 1986 Simone de Beauvoir ( 23, 32, 52, 58, 63, 66, 72, 77, 79, 83
85, 87, 88, 90, 96, 99, 104, 105, 101, 116
122, 127, 135, 139, 150, 152, 172, 185, 187, 190
191, 193, 199, 215, 218, 226, 242, 244, 246, 227
254, 249, 294, 305, 331, 333, 361, 365, 372, 393
401, 411)
1949 – present Slavoj Zizek ( 64, 123, 206, 419)
470 B.C. – 399 B.C. Socrates ( 3, 76, 90, 95, 104, 100, 108, 115, 128, 137
145, 153, 155, 177, 192, 196, 219, 223, 272, 274
344, 363, 373, 378, 388, 395, 400, 406)
1813 – 1855 Soren Kierkegaard ( 7, 20, 61, 79, 85, 87, 99, 105, 127, 152
172, 174, 178, 204, 237, 242, 246, 229, 254, 281
299, 306, 347, 368, 371, 375, 394)
544 B.C. – 496 B.C. Sun Tzu ( 415)
624 B.C. – 546 B.C. Thales ( 95, 129, 155, 181, 216, 250, 328, 362, 388, 397
407)
1903 – 1969 Theodor Adorno ( 251, 257)
1225 – 1274 Thomas Aquinas ( 78, 355, 378)
1588 – 1679 Thomas Hobbes ( 17, 26, 34, 37, 68, 107, 211, 280, 305, 375
379, 385, 387, 390)
1922 – 1996 Thomas Kuhn ( 49, 358)
1870 – 1924 Vladimir Lenin ( 154, 195)
1694 – 1778 Voltaire ( 93, 108)
1908 – 2000 Willard Van Quine ( 28, 30, 36, 89, 171, 185)
1756 – 1836 William Godwin ( 247)
1842 – 1910 William James ( 30)
1564 – 1616 William Shakespeare ( 45)
334 B.C. – 262 B.C. Zeno of Citium ( 50, 55, 69, 118, 129, 142, 151, 179)
490 B.C. – 430 B.C. Zeno of Elea ( 3, 50, 95, 118, 129, 142, 388, 397)
1599 – 1692 Zera Yacob ( 319, 377)

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