PHILO-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Existentialism, Socratic Method
28 Oct 2020
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Existentialism can be defined as the philosophy of existence (akinpelu, 1981:154). Knight (2001:3) says existentialism is not a philosophy but a label for several widely different revolts against traditional philosophy. It is a philosophy that was developed as a result of the excesses of industrialisation, science and technology developments. Existentialism is a philosophy of existence that is concerned with human beings in their concrete existence and humans as thinking, feeling and acting individuals. Existentialism disclaims any interest in metaphysics or abstract speculation about the nature of man/what is real and unchanging in the world. What is existing and real is what we feel, what we see and what we touch. Existentialism confides its existence to the definition of man. That a man is a self-determined individual who has freedom to choose/not to choose. A man has a unique personality which is not duplicated to any other man.
