PHIL 1033 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Existence Precedes Essence, Jean-Paul Sartre, Nanny
30 Oct 2016
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8. 22. 16: aims and goals the meaning of life? some different views, and the reasons that support them critical analysis so that no one gets away with anything patching up holes. Syllabus, icon site main lecture site phil 1033:0aaa discussion section site books and other readings. Existentialism the appropriate life for a human being is a life in which we express our extreme freedom. Part of our existence is to be free, have to express it. Human beings have a special kind of dignity. (293, 302) When we invent sth, we have an idea of what we are printing before we create it and once it exists, there is nth u can do about its essence or what it is, it is what it is. Essence preceeds existence-what it is is a thought before it is created and once it is created it is stuck with an essence.
