PSY290H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cogito Ergo Sum, Existence Precedes Essence, Hillbilly
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2 key ideas/starting points for sartre: 1) draw the conclusion from a consistent atheism , vs. a convenient inconsistent atheism that tries to give up the idea of god with least consequences, 2) absolute truth and superiority. Descartes i think therefore i am --- only thing we know about with absolute certainty. Consciousness investigates how conscious structures reality and creates the reality we experience =phenomenal. Copernicus (discovered that the earth revolved around the sun) Phenomenon that which appears noumenal the thing in itself . Descartes and husserl are mistaken in taking human being as an isolated subject. Hib=is not an isolated subject, but rather a social construct. Sartre"s definition of existentialism: existentialism= existence precedes essence , traditional view: essence precedes existence, first: thrown into the world/into existence, then: define/create who and what we are, first principle of existentialism. Who you are, your life, is a project.
