"The chief source of failure is the subjectivity of Existentialist epistemology. Existentialism is an extreme form of romanticism. Its ideal is a wartime Faust. The values of life are considered superior to the values of thought. Unfortunately, in opposing life to thought Existentialism dares not have any concept of life, for that would be thinking. Thinking depends on the relation of a subject to a predicate, and the goal of the Existentialists is to rise above this distinction. This is a denial of all knowledge and truth, and if there is no knowledge in general, obviously there can be no knowledge of morality in particular.
The same impossible epistemology is found among the non-atheistic, so-called Christian Existentialists also. They may even not wish to be known as Existentialists, but their rejection of rationality and logic is the same. In particular, along with Friedrich Nietzsche they reject or at least set limits to the law of contradiction. To argue logically for a certain distance is acceptable, but there comes a point where faith must curb implication, and that must be accepted which contradicts earlier assertions." - Gordon H. Clark, Secular Philosophy found in the Works of Gordon Haddon Clark volume 7
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