PHI 1104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Ancient Philosophy, Jean-Paul Sartre, Totalitarianism
19 Apr 2018
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Nazism as unique forms of political governance because it works to isolate individuals with terror: the human conditions, a passage is in our course book. For the first time in history, humans want to leave our world and escape to another planet for a better life. She adopts a model similar to aristotle (a human being is a political animal. It is the only animal that speaks together and figures out different social forms in order to better the human condition. His model is the agora where citizens got together to discuss issues). She wants to avoid the modern techniques, and decides to go back to ancient philosophy: what inspires her is the space of political discourse that is not tied to the everyday individual concerns. Having enough to survive (marx"s proletariat) it is not a satisfying way of getting meaning. We live in a consumerist society, which tells us to consume we will get meaning.
