PSY 11 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Irvin D. Yalom, Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre
7 Apr 2016
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Existential theories difer in many ways, but they all emphasize that essence is more important than existence. Essence vs existence: essence- the way we deine something, things can be the same but have separate existence/history, existence sometimes has sentimental value; ex: you have a favorite ring and lose it. Fyodor dostoyevsky: science cannot predict human behavior, if there was a theory about all human behavior, humans would change behavior because they see it is a threat to their freedom. People don"t want to feel predictable: because of the need to have freedom, there could never be a theory on how humans are going to be have. Jean-paul sartre: did not like conventional ways of classroom teaching; would want to students in cafeteria and talk about everything besides school, in-itself vs for-itself: in-itself entity doesn"t have ability to make choices for itself, for-itself does. We deceive ourselves by thinking that we have to do the things we do.
