Philosophy 2130A/B Lecture 3: Existentialism 3
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Hinter worldly: living for something else (after life, questioning why people don"t do things for the life right now instead of essentially living for another life that may not exist. Love thy neighbour: you should love yourself and your friends. They are like you, care about each other, mutual respect/bene t. Notion of creating your own values and doing all these things for oneself. Dated journal entries written by 30 year old antoine roquentin. Being in itself non conscious things; solid, self identical passive and inert, it simply is", it has no will or idea to change itself (e. g. rock, desk, park bench) Being for itself conscious living, it is uid, not self identical and dynamic, it is the internal negation or nihilations" of the in itself, it has will, it can change (e. g. animals, humans) People are entities that combine both: we are beings in situations interacting with others and things, we experience our body as object and subject.