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About  June 8th, 2015

Welcome to “Authentic Orange”!  In this blog, OSU students studying existentialism utilize their philosophical skills to explore, challenge, and analyze what it means to authentically “Be Orange,” or an OSU Beaver.

In a May 4th, 1888 letter to Brandes, Friedrich Nietzsche wrote that one builds one’s “philosophy like a beaver.” After spending a term engaging with the work of Nietzsche, Beauvoir, Fanon, Sartre, Kierkegaard, and other existentialists, OSU Beavers build their philosophies, bite by bite.

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