kierkegaard, heidegger, sartre
Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Sartre, Zen extension
capability
Connect universals, existential emotions, burden of choice, Being, freedom, and conflict between self and reason.
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questions
- How does existentialism depart from previous post-Kantian schools of thought?
- Describe the relationship between the theory of universals and the origins of existentialism.
- What gives rise to the “existential emotions”?
- How does voluntarism produce a conflict between self and reason?
- Why does Kierkegaard believe that free will creates a burden on man?
- How does Heidegger arrive at the concept of Being?
- Explain Heidegger’s view of man and some of its implications for ethics.
- What is Sartre’s concept of freedom? Why does he think we are condemned by that fact?
- How might Zen Buddhism be taken as the logical extension of existentialism?
phase problem
problem
What does the existentialist turn retain from earlier philosophy, and what does it reject, in the course interpretation?
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