PHL 366 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Late Capitalism, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Mass Society
25 Jan 2016
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The problem with isms take this to mean a. The thinkers called existentialists" mostly rejected affiliation with any ism", if we unified school or movement. Of the thinkers we"re studying, only beauvoir (and sartre) embraced the term. There are important differences between thinkers called existentialists": notably, (kierkegaard and dostoevsky) Earliest, philosophy has focused on giving rational accounts of the world and our. We see this in plato"s focus on eternal ideas," which we can only contemplate. We see this in the philosophical systems of the 19th century german philosophy. The tradition of humiliated reason : place in it intellectually (hegel) What previous philosophers considered more particularity, or contingent philosophers made the subject of their enquiry. Our feelings and moods (ie. precisely that which escapes conceptualization) Especially certain moods such as anxiety (angst), despair, solitude. Existentialism was more than just a sterile academic movement. One reason for this popularity: existentialists addressed concrete questions of human existence.
