PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Viktor Frankl, Logotherapy, Fideism
4 Apr 2016
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Theory hypothesis with some evidence going for it. Fact when the truth of a belief/theory is beyond a reasonable doubt. Nihilism there is no meaning to life. Fideism don"t know if god exists or not. Logotherapy help people find meaning in their lives. Existential vacuum when one feels they have no meaning left in life. He said sex is the basic drive, no question about it. He got caught in the holocaust as a jew. When he was sent to concentration camps, he turned to existentialism and developed logotherapy and the purpose of it was to help people find meaning in their life. Existential vacuum is when a person feels they have no meaning to life. Such people committed suicide in the concentration camps. The guy who started america"s most wanted had his son killed by a petafile. This is why making a show like that became the meaning of his life.
