PHL 366 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Utopia, Man Man, Rational Egoism
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Present age keeps all things as possibilities and doesn"t settle on one thing over the other !! Dost- like kier is a gure the forerunners the term existentialism, He began writing in 1846 - he belong to a group where he got arrested. If god didn"t exist then anything would be permitted- this is what existentialism is existence proceeds essence, nothing determines who we are pr how we are to be. Freedom requires responsibility, we have the responsibility to determine what it means to be a human being, this can be also a burden. Dost believes that human beings have no nature no essence, man can not be an insect they dont have a xed and stable nature. Freedom is alsways undermining any xed and stable nature. Now we despise the people and our national essence so deeply that we treat them with a new, preceded squeamishness this is progress.
