[HomeAtLast]

"Everyone suggests technical or economic, or institutional remedies for what is a huge crisis of civilization, a metaphysical crisis, existential...Men exist only in their 'representations'...which could also be called prejudices...Men exist only in what distinguishes them: clan, lineage, history, culture, tradition. There is no universal answer to the questions of existence..."

Venner sounds like a garden-variety unwashed Sartre wannabe.

[annalex]

Maybe because Sartre is the only French philosopher you can remember the name of?

And what is wrong with the assertions you quoted, on merits?

[spankalib]

Tiptoeing in...

The statement that “There is no universal answer to the questions of existence”

is false, and a tenant of existentialism - thus Home’s Sartre reference, with which I agree.

I would think a bite-your-head-off-Catholic would agree, anna.