PHL 366 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Simone De Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Existentialism
11 Jan 2017
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Phl 366 - arts, culture and existentialism pschwebel@ryerson. ca. Kierkegaard, dostoevsky, beauvoir short essays on these philosophers. Existentialism is not a unified school or movement. No system of philosophy or general logic can adequately engage what it means to exist. Existence the singular, existing human being the finitude of contingency of existence. Our feelings and moods (i. e. , precisely that which escapes conceptualization. Moods that wake us up to our own finitude, and that shakes us from complacency, or automatically going through the motions. The essence of being human, a general strain that strands us together existence precedes essence we find no model for what it is to be human, we choose. Existentialism engaging in limitation of philosophy (therefore negative, therefore the possibility of human existence through general concepts) Existentialism engages in phenomena, including feeling and moods, therefore it neglects to pay attention to concept. What it means to be passionately committed to; what i would live or die for.
