PHIL 115 Study Guide - Hubris, Infomercial, Immanence
4 Apr 2013
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Marcel"s father died when he was four, raised by father and aunt. Didn"t particularly enjoy school until encounter with philosophy. Converted to roman catholicism at age of 40, very influenced by nietzsche as well as some catholic philosopher. Didn"t like the term because sartre coined it, and was a philosophy that influenced by 19th century forerunner of existential philosophy. Wanted philosophy to begin with concrete lived experience, as the purpose is to understand human experience. Phenomenological (phenomenology) thinker. (no abstractions) working up from life to thought, and then down from thought to life again. Reminds of john dewey, we theorize in the basis of practice, and return to that realm to cope with it in a more intelligent way. Critical of newer forms of rationalist thought. P. 27 how he begins chapter three it can never be too strongly emphasized that depths of man"s being. a contemporary sense of disquiet- worry, unease, anxiety.
