PHIL 115 Lecture Notes - Friedrich Nietzsche, World War I, Christian Existentialism
Document Summary
20th and 21st century philosophy is extremely complex: there begins a rather wide gulf between english speaking and european philosophical world. A good part of nietzsche"s theories provide the starting point for him. Phenomenology is a method of inquiry: describe in the most rigorous way, how you experience the world, describe the object of consciousness. A phenomenon is anything you can be aware of, thing about doesn"t have to be an object: make contact with, perceive, imagine, remember, dream, etc . Spent wwi as a member of the red cross. Main professional occupation was drama critique in journals. Philosophy begins with experience, especially about human existence. Method works up from life to thought and down from thought to life again. We become too enamoured with ideas we must bring those ideas back to earth to help us understand the nature of human existence. The job of the cultural physician is to see what the problem is with the world.
