SOCY 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Indexicality, Social Reality, Candid Camera
14 Jan 2016
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The dominant philosophical view in france pre and post war was existentialism: Emphasizing the importance of immediate experiences, rather than complex and abstract thought. Rooted in the romanticism and subjectivism of kierkegaard and nietzsche, existentialism has a concern for loneliness, anguish and doubt. Following nietzsche, existentialism developed themes concerned with how humans must create their own meaning in the world and then act to realize it. Albert camus" (1913-1960) writing expressed the view that human values appeared to have no solid foundation. Camus though humans are not social by nature: but solitary, individualistic and alienated from one another. Paradoxically, they possess the desire to be sociable, with the artificial creation called society" making life possible. In sartre"s philosophy, an individual exists and is absolutely free, but is defined by their action: one is never free not to act. Humans can never simply be"; freedom forces humanity to.
