ACS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Joel Osteen, Hans Reichel, Morris Berman

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Arts and Contemporary Studies
• Course: ACS 100
• Professor: Pelkey Jamin

Document Summary

Daxophone: hans reichel bubu and his friends. In order to survive we cannot pretend that selling ourselves aren"t part of the story. Constant struggle between finding out your true authentic self and selling yourself. A review of the problem: individualism (as narcissism) Ct: all of these are rooted in nihilism where there is devoid of meaning lack of individual responsibility everything tends toward decay. Avoidance of talking about science need to take science into consideration. Video: the power of i am joel osteen. Not in a middle ground so much as in a completely different ground . Wants us to retrieve something lost in hope. Find the solution in a completely different ground. Trying to retrieve meaning authentic individuality in order t do this successfully, a process that is itself paradoxical. Not going to default to one side or another: freedom has to be a major part of the story but also restraint.