PHIL 373 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Existentialism, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 373
• Professor: Paul Fairfield

Document Summary

Interpreted being and time as an existentialist text. Fu(cid:396)the(cid:396) ela(cid:271)o(cid:396)atio(cid:374) f(cid:396)o(cid:373) heidegge(cid:396)"s bei(cid:374)g a(cid:374)d ti(cid:373)e. Sartre thought heidegger was on the right road but it needed further elaboration. Crucial difference is that he will talk about time less and nothingness more. He does(cid:374)"t pose the (cid:395)uestio(cid:374) of (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g i(cid:374) the sa(cid:373)e (cid:449)a(cid:455) as heidegge(cid:396) Co(cid:373)(cid:373)e(cid:374)ta(cid:396)(cid:455) o(cid:374) the ti(cid:373)es (cid:449)e"re living in. Far more of a political thinker than heidegger. More explicitly political after the war, ethics and politics. Marxist, not a political moderate at all. Liberal democracy claims to serve everyone, but he says it serves just the interest of the affluent and middle class at the expense of the working class. Think about the individual character, it consists of the projects that they pursue. If i am what i do, the projects and undertakings that i freely pursue, than my freedom is the most important thing in my existence.