Experience- beginning of philosophy

The ancient philosophers asked the question - what is that from which everything comes to existence. They saw the movement around them. Some observed the natural phenomena so overwhelming and realised the internal power in everything.

Martin Buber Experienced the Pain of separation when he experienced the divorce of his parents and termed that experience as "Miscounter". He has a philosophy of Encounter - a meaningful way of existence - the genuine relationship between the I-Thou.

Sartre' Experience- the key hole experience made him to conclude that 'the other' is a threat/ the other is hell.

Viktor Frankl experienced the nastiness of the Holocaust and the concentration camps and concluded that no one can take away my freedom of decision to find meaning.

Hannah Arendt, a Political philosopher encountered the Eichmann trial, The holocaust, the world wars and framed her Philosophy of thinking. Political action consisting of two sides of life - vita activa (life of action) and vita contemplative (life of contemplation). she was very much struck by the "thoughtlessness" of the action of the nazi official, whom she considers as the normal person. she concludes with the lines of Cicero - "Never is a man more active than when he does nothing, never is he less alone than when he is by himself"

John Paul II too had his own experiences and constructed the philosophy of the "acting person" and upholds responsibility.

Then i too can construct a philosophy of my own based on my own experiences - an Existential Experiential Philosophy.