PHIL 2170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Facticity, Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 2170
• Professor: Grant-Young

Document Summary

Things of interests section is full of cool existentialist stuff, but this page is not tested on. There are conflicting opinions in this school of philosophy. Fraught with alienation or conflict vs mutual dependency or selfless love. No great thing but there is one despite the disgraces. Hegel) we need to live and feel it. There is something essential about the human (a soul and a plan?) Existentialists don"t think essence is beforehand, they think were self-made. Jean paul sartre the human = not yet . Facticity: the limitations of our factual nature (physiology), sexuality, sociohistorical situation. Transcendence: if we are conscious of these limitations, we can surpass them by interpreting, reimagining and giving meaning to them to create ourselves and have a new understanding by confronting them (go beyond limits) Concept iii: freedom (and the responsibility that comes with it) We can say in ways that were free, we can say who we are and how we act.