PHIL 373 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jean-Paul Sartre, Liberal Democracy, Facticity
16 Nov 2016
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Larger picture: influenced by heidegger but not his disciple. Focuses more on nothingness and less on time. Exclusively human beings: phenomenological investigation of the basic structure of human existence, commentary on the times we are living in. Not liberal democracy: liberal democracy doesn(cid:495)t serve the whole, but serves the affluent and middle class. What(cid:495)s a better model: short answer: think about the individual moral character. It consists in the project it freely ensues. You are what you do: freedom is the most important. We are radically free, more free than we realize. Assign responsibility for your character to someone else. Basic ideas of phenomenology: move beyond the duality of the way something appears and the way something is. Being is the way it is to us. Not questioning underlying mechanisms: we(cid:495)re describing experience as we experience, pg. We don(cid:495)t see the world in its totality: pg.
