PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Viktor Frankl, Fideism, Greek Mythology

• School: York University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1100
• Professor: David Stamos

Document Summary

Fideism - does not have evidence in faith. There is one truly one philosophical problem, suicide, is the fundamental question, these are games, one must first answer the fundamental question . Died in 1960, not suicide, but car accident. Dying in a car accident is a meaningless way to die . Suicide caused by depression, sickness/pain or mental illness. People die for religion and political reasons (democratic evolution) Victor frankl, became a existentialist and existential philosophy. On all essential problems, method of belief and dan quixote. Killing yourself is like a confession or one does not understand (not worth the trouble) Dying voluntary, the ridiculous of the habit. In the universe the illusion and lights man is a alien, stranger, is exile, since he is deprived of a lost hope and life, the actor and setting is absurdity (page 75) Existentialist do not feel at home on earth, feels like a stranger.