Contemporary philosophy in the balance of criticism by Abdul Rahman Badawi

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1 Faculty of Arts for Girls, Ain Shams, Egypt

2 Department of philosophy, Faculty of Women, Ain Shams University, Egypt

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Badawi admired Nietzsche's moral philosophy and his overturning of prevailing values in order to establish new values. Life is a will to power that requires pain, and it is a condition for every genius. Badawi's existentialism is distinguished from Heidegger's existentialism by the dynamic tendency that gives action priority over thought, and in extracting the meanings of existence it relies on reason, emotion, and will together. And to living experience, and this in turn depends on the faculty of conscience as it is the most capable of the faculties of perception to understand living existence. Badawi emphasized that existence is composed of separate units, which can only be crossed by mutation, which is nothingness.
Badawi was convinced that biological time is real, and that physical time is necessary in order to find a common standard in which we record external phenomena in their movement in terms of succession. Badawi criticized Bergson in his misunderstanding of the ideas of possibility and nothingness, as he interpreted them as two false ideas that have no basis in the reality of existence.
Badawi rejected logical positivism, declaring that reducing philosophy to merely analyzing and defining words is something that no philosopher can acknowledge, in addition to Badawi’s interest in metaphysics through his two dissertations, The Problem of Death in Existential Philosophy, and Existential Time.

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Buhūth
Volume 5, Issue 1
Social Sciences and Humanities and languages
January 2025
Pages 283-305

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