More Men Under the Line of Despair

Jasper, Sartre, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein were men who were willing to reject biblical reason. Until age 70 Heidegger was clearly an existentialist. He championed 'angst'; a fear or dread without any reason or meaning. Wittgenstein came up with 'linguistic analysis' which was the practice of analyzing language to the exclusion of knowledge. It does not ask the question, “Can we really know anything without taking into account the Knower or God.” This form of Positivism sounds good, but has no way of proving its position.