Existentialism has been accused of being unjustly anthropocentric (i.e., takes for granted – and abuses – the human centric point of view). Take for example the following quotations: Kierkegaard: “The possibility of this sickness [despair] is man’s superiority over the animal” (qtd. in Marino, p.43) Nietzsche: “[B]ut it is only fair to add that it […]