PHL 366 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Existentialism, Defamiliarization, Martin Heidegger
11 Jan 2017
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You continue making gestures commanded by existence for many reasons, the first of which is habit. Dying voluntarily implies that you have recognized, even instinctively, the ridiculous character of that habit, the absence of any profound reason for living, the insane character of that daily agitation, and the uselessness of suffering (5-6) Camus" problem with this is what happens after recognition? (1) first hypothesis: matter of habit in a man"s attachment to life there is something stronger than all the ills in the world. Animals do not question the meaning of life (2) second hypothesis- the power of the illusion of hope. The typical act of eluding, the fatal evasion that constitutes the third theme of this essay, is hope. The seek to escape this life and itself, they turn away to a world beyond this one, (hope and suicide) looking away from this life that this life has no meaning and looking beyond.
