POL 3102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Moral Responsibility, Misogyny, Existentialism
26 Jul 2018
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Central to so many intellectual movements in the 20th c: existentialism, post-modernism, phenomenology, relativism, etc. Puts his experiences into his writing: philosopher as an entire being. Father dies early and is raised by his mother. Study of literature and the languages: classicist, role of language in thought, get caught up in the terms and metaphors that we are using, poetic writer. Unstable in the 1880s: had a mental breakdown, debate on whether he had syphilis. For the rest of his life his sister took care of him. Come to terms w/ the entire history of western philosophy. Struggling w/ what has become of modern philosophy. Critique of society at the time: blandness, christianity/anti-christianity. Voice of a crisis: crisis of consciousness. Influential on freud: opens our eyes to what is underneath in the mind. Crazy sister: anti-semite and racist, n hated anti-semitism, had a crazy racist husband, ended up some of his last notes, met w/ hitler.
