- Existentialism: our being as 'subjective individuals' is more important that what we have in common objectively with other human beings (essence)
- More important to search for personal truths than the ultimate 'truth'
- Reasoned truth not relevant to our everyday lives
- Three stages of life's way
- Aesthetic stage: living in the moment; slave to desires; our senses
- Ethical stage: living by the law of morals
- Religious stage: road to redemption
- Meaning of existence
- Escaping the despairs of life and striving for happiness is what gives life meaning
- Absolute faith can overcome the meaninglessness of your existence
- Confrontation with existential dread -- obsessive, unavoidable fact of death
- Insignificance of life
- Problem of fear
- Meaning is embedded in a broader sense of God's plan; human life is full of suffering
- Morals are universal; we know things innately that are morally right and wrong; because of permeating wonder of faith, we have the 'teleological suspension of the ethical'; Abraham, when going to sacrifice his son, goes against his moral law to obey God; faith goes beyond morality
- Morals are objective; moral law comes from God
- Sees beauty of individual; every person has anxiety and fears
- Ubermensch: recognize own weakness and fallibility but put faith in something greater than oneself; strength to put oneself into unknown
Friday, May 11, 2012
3 of 4 Philosophers (Kierkegaard)
Kierkegaard
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