PP110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Albert Camus, Rudolf Carnap, Kurt Baier
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Key: human condition, we endure all kinds of pain: physical, emotional, and psychological. Human condition gives rise to angst, or anxiety. **idea: reaction to the idea that an objective knowledge of the human can be attained by applying the scientific method to sociology and psychology. **existentialism is unsympathetic to science as a cognitive enterprise, suspicious of scientism, and wary of applying the scientific method the solution of our human problems. Kie(cid:396)kegaa(cid:396)d"s philosoph(cid:455): we make ourselves through our choices and thereby come to truly exist, (to be real) Getting clarity about what to do: action and doing recurs in all existentialist thinking, what is real. Understanding reality through subjectivity: what is (cid:862)t(cid:396)ue fo(cid:396) (cid:373)e(cid:863, reality must be understood from the subjective perspective of the self who choose and acts. Overcoming the gap between god and humanity: kierkegaard focus on decision and commitment, our reality is an outcome of our choice and commitments.
