HUM 223 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Aka People, Christian Mortalism, Existentialism
Intellectual Foundations of Modern World
What is modern?
-Belief in the progress of humanity
-Rejection of the cultures and authorities of the past
-Redefinition of human value and human understanding
Existentialism
-Soren Kierkegard (d. 185)
-Individual is responsible for giving meaning to life
-Knight of faith; complete faith in God and self
source of meaning in life
-Knight of infinite resignation; actions without meaning
Friedrich Nietzsche (d. 1900)
-Stateless Prussian professor and philosopher
-Philosophy based on observations on the development of a modern society
: Impact of scientific philosophy and human reason
:Impact of industrialization and urbanization
:Problem of relativism and morality
-Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883); concept of the superman
-Superman focuses on this world rather than otherworldly concerns: God is dead; society has killed any
usefulness for God
:Invention of an immortal soul a form
of Christian escapism
: Problem when God provides no values
-Hallmarks of Nihilism
: there is o meaning in life
: decline in Christianity in society
: physiological decadence; aka people are sleeping around
-Superman as the creators of new values:
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Document Summary
Rejection of the cultures and authorities of the past. Individual is responsible for giving meaning to life. Knight of faith; complete faith in god and self source of meaning in life. Philosophy based on observations on the development of a modern society. : impact of scientific philosophy and human reason. Thus spoke zarathustra (1883); concept of the superman. Superman focuses on this world rather than otherworldly concerns: god is dead; society has killed any usefulness for god. :invention of an immortal soul a form of christian escapism.