ENC1143 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Romanticism, Abrahamic Religions, Western Philosophy
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Soren Kierkegaard
- Super religious but also thought religion was highly unethical in the way that religion shirks
ethics.
- Most faous phrase gae irth to the ter leap of faith.
- A Romanticist who believed in universals but did not look for other Universalists where
Romanticists traditionally looked for them.
o Kierkegaard as differet eause he as iterested i idiidual hoie ad a hua’s
experience as a Christian and actively choosing to be one.
- Questioned the biblical figure Abraham a lot.
Random Historical Context
- The Theor of Eolutio a proess; eplaied the differet fors of aials as essetiall
the opposite of the orld’s diie reatio fied
- The method by which evolution occurs: natural selection.
o Survival of the fittest
Nietzsche
- Starts as a professor of Greek philosophers.
o Had little to no respect for them.
o Cosidered their philosophies the ger that ade Wester philosoph sik
- Nihilism (has Russian roots): belief in nothing
o Nothing refers to something that does not exist (which was largely heaven and hell)
- Morality
o For the Master: good led to greatess, ad led to a lak of ipat, hih as
considered weakness
The Master need not check with anyone whether his actions were actually
ethical.
o For the “lae: good meant being submissive, evil involved aggression (particularly
against the Master)
o He elieed that Wester iilizatio adopted the slae oralit eause of the
Abrahamic religions (which were rooted in slaves, or submissive members of society)
and mistook suissio as the good people should aspire to aitai.
- Meat God is dead i the a that their lies o loger relied o God like it used to; God o
loger had a etral role i people’s lies.
o The philosophy or entity that would replace God deeply troubled Nietzsche.
o With the slave morality still in place, he wondered what people would consider
greatess or hat the ould do Master oralit.
- Believed there was no one truth; only many truths (Perspectivism)
- Considered the first Existentialist
o Often wondered how to give meaning to life
o What ill greatess e to e?
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