PSYC 3140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 82: Dasein, Martin Heidegger, Empiricism
9 May 2018
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Lecture 82
• Existential psychology
o ***Traditionally, the beginning of existential psychology is marked
with the writings of both Kierkegaard and Nietzsche.
o Existentialist were interesting in the nature of human existence.
▪ ***ontology is the branch of philosophy that studies the
nature of existence or being.
• The existentialists are concerned with two ontological
questions:
o (1) What is the nature of human nature? and
o (2) What does it mean to be a particular
individual?
▪ Thus, the existentialists use phenomenology to study either
the important experiences that humans have in common or
those experiences that individuals have as they live their
lives—such as emotion
▪ Used by existentialists, phenomenology became a study of
the totality of human existence – focusing on the full range of
human cognitive and emotional experience.
o Existentialism: Key Eras
▪ Early European: opposition to Empiricism & Rationalism
▪ Later European: in response to horrors of the Holocaust;
darker, more pessimistic
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