ENG 200 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Existence Precedes Essence, Peak Experience, Theism
20 Dec 2019
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Cphl 333: study notes for the mid-term test: sartre. How does he define existentialism? (what does he mean in saying that existence precedes essence?) Freedom and indeterminism: s claims that we are all radically free, hence radically responsible for ourselves. (free not only to choose how to act, but to choose the reasons or values that will guide our actions. ) Existentialism, atheism and theism: s thinks that we could have a given nature only if there were some kind of supernal artisan", like god, who had designed us. (notice that this recalls hill"s endowment thesis". ) Problems of life versus the problem of the meaning of life. According to practical wisdom, the problem of meaning takes care of itself if you can solve the problems of life such things as loneliness, poverty, sickness, etc. M thinks that claims of existential angst (about meaning) are psychologically suspect. His argument concerns the notion of peak experience".
