Not being a philopopher of the PhD variety, I have been
following our conversation on Existentialism.
It would seem to me that, at least in hardboiled fiction, if
a lead character does not mention God, he is functionally an
existentialist. Although I don't think that belief in God and
an existentialist philosophy are muturally exclusive.
In a sense, isn't existentialism the philosophy of "do the
right thing, no matter who's looking?"
In noir, it seems that characters set out to "do the right
thing for me." Kind of a poor man's Ayn Rand. It often works
for the intelligent but hardly ever works for the dummy or
the careless.
Jack Bludis
http://www.jackbludis.com
-- updated
"Shadow of the Dahlia" now at BN.com
"Shadow" has been nominated for a Shamus
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