CAS RN 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Existential Crisis, Mass Society, Existentialism
15 Mar 2016
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Sees being a mortal human being as a side effect, her emotional state is a bi- product of a physical process. States that there really is no point in fearing oblivion, since it is inevitable and everyone else is already ignoring it. Fears oblivion- meaninglessness, that people won"t remember him, or that all of what he is going through is just meaningless. A cultural movement that flourished in europe in the 40s and 50s, associated with the thought of modern philosophers. World view that people construct when the traditional ways of making meaning of the world break down. A man is nothing else but what he makes of himself . Rationality is imperfect and unreliable, there"s a way in which real human life is gonna go beyond rational symptoms that we can control, rationality doesn"t capture the nature of what it is and feels to be human.
