Existentialism - focus on Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Feuerbach
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- Existentialism
- Nietzsche
- God is dead
- faith in the true world theories is deteriorating
- humanity, when losing faith, would be torn
- Nihilism
- faith in order to give a meaning to oneself's life, in order not to feel superfluous or meaningless
- however, by having a belief in the true world's theories, we just live a life that is not complete
- however, the non - believer would have the feeling to live his life at the maximum
- growing feeling that life is meaningless
- survival for what?
- a world in which free men could create and live their own lives
- absolute freedom
- the overman - a being capable to go against all the asserted truths and to exercise the will to power
- skepticism
- God is dead
- Feuerbach
- god of religion
- desire, material, sensible
- fulfills our desires, gives us comfort and attends to our sensible being
- it's an humanistic being
- antropomorphic
- no logical proof of it
- corollary image - we are instinctively sensible about that.
- god of philosophy
- reason/thought
- Transcendence
- idea, abstract
- God is represented as just pure ideals, contemplation
- cannot interact with it - Impersonal relationship with God
- however, does not show the real world - too abstract
- god of religion
- Kierkegaard
- infinite
- the expanding factor
- possibility
- to change oneself
- potentialities
- to lose oneself in the infinite - life lived as our experiences are just experiments
- obsession with what we can become, but in reality never accomplish what we think
- the expanding factor
- finite
- necessity
- the concrete
- as we see the world at the moment
- if we do not see anythig but what we live in the moment, we are imprisoned in the finite
- slave
- dependent of others
- one must choose a definite style of living appropriate to the self that one truly is
- anxiety rises from the inability to get to the self
- the recognition of having freedom
- sense of responsibility of oneself and the future
- the recognition of having freedom
- despair
- the condition by which oneself tries to get rid of his own self
- awareness of it brings to its eradication and thus to live a genuine selfhood
- the condition by which oneself tries to get rid of his own self
- Existential (subjective) truth
- lived and experienced
- embedded in the subjectivity of oneself
- infinite
- Others such as Sartre
- Nietzsche
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