PHIL 2170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Jewish Existentialism, Existentialism
17 Nov 2018
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Meaning and our self-hood are not found in this self-enclosed view. We have a tension that emerges when we talk about self. We remember in kierkegaard we have the transition into the ethical sphere where you commit yourself to an ethical principal. When we talk about freedom, freedom is something that we want someone to be free, so we create an ethical obligation, there need to be some way my politics get freedom for myself, and also for others. The ethical problem: we treat people as objects and as means to our ends. Lots of these people draw their influence from kant. Humans are basically reduced to mere tools or objects that are manipulated to other people. The sort of history of various groups, and exploiting people for their labor or for sexual gratification. Existentialism lives in this historic part of philosophy. There is an addition, the linguistic way we refer to people around us- the other.
