PHILOS 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Modern Philosophy, Individualism, Halfway House
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Themes: life/death, nothingness, dread, anxiety, absurdity, alienation, nausea, and the subjective freedom to choose, that is, to exercise nietzsche"s will to power ; authentic existence; make your life a work of art: poll: what"s your first reaction to. Human, all too human: sartre : positive, super skeptical, but interested, worried about the consequences for the good life, existentialist thinking is the root of evil, whatever (all answers will receive full point credit. ) Nihilism: there is no given order of reality; there is only chaos and flux upon which humans must impose/invent/create an order. = individual freedom to interpret your situation and choose your interpretation and course of action; not a solid entity that persists thru time. Hence, literature (art, poetry) is the best vehicle for conveying the reality of existence. Death-affirming story, or interpretation of reality. himself to be. Authenticity: in the absence of a given moral order, create and keep faith with the values you choose.
