PHIL 2360H Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jean-Paul Sartre, Søren Kierkegaard, Solipsism
11 Sep 2017
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What is philosophy: morals and ethics, love of wisdom, base assumptions of reality, mind set, pursuit of truth, arguments, discussions of life and death, literally means: love of wisdom. Other categories: living, finite, objective, subjective, solipsism the question of whether we can prove if anything exists. Existentialism, at its core, is a crisis in faith: a crisis in what constitutes truth and reality and existence itself; a crisis in the faith that human life matters. Total depravity: a particular form of christianity, (most don"t believe in it), that says humans are just naturally violent and destructive, and if left to our own devices, we will hurt everything. Thomas flynn: existentialism represents a long tradition in the history of philosophy in the west, extending back to socrates. This is the practice of philosophy as care of the self". Two forms of philosophy: logic, cognitive; moving from one deduction to another, self formation.
