PSYC 3140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 50: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Existentialism
9 May 2018
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Lecture 50
1. Soren Kierkegaard Existentialist
a. One of the1st modern existentialist.
b. Religious man
i. Kierkegaard was an outspoken critic of the established
church for its worldliness and its insistence on the
acceptance of prescribed dogma.
1. He said that the most meaningful relationship with
God was a purely personal one that was arrived at
through an individual’s free choice, not one whose
nature and content were dictated by the church.
2. Religion was too rational and mechanical
ii. Kierkegaard ultimately rejected Hegel’s philosophy
because it placed too much emphasis on the logical and
the rational and not enough on the irrational, emotional
side of human nature.
iii. Kierkegaard rejected science as too mechanistic: he
thought it prevented us from viewing humans as
emotional and choosing beings.
c. Kierkegaard Rejected science as too mechanistic
d. Truth is what a person believes, not logical arguments
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