Tanith Perridge 1 Keywords Glossary Philosophy Definition: Anguish Satre’s lecture on existentialism and humanism brings with it several emotional implications or responsibilities in which choice is connected. One of the emotional links is that of anguish. Satre states that anguish is an individual’s response to freedom …“we are responsible as we are free” .. (Flynn 2006 pg8) that individuals have to take sole responsibility for actions taken resulting in the feeling of anguish. Discussion
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quote really caught my attention as I sat there in the lecture. I immediately thought of the many discussions that this course had about the essence of ones-self and the essence of God. The first thing that came to mind was Sarte’s explanation of existentialism. The idea that “existence comes before essence, man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world and defines himself afterwards”. Another topic throughout that class that this quote touches base with is from the discussions
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In Part One, Meursault works as a shipping clerk in Algiers, a city in North Africa. He learns of his mother’s death, and although he is somewhat ambivalent upon hearing the news, he travels to the nursing home to attend her funeral and sit in vigil over her body. At the funeral he displays little emotion and is not interested in viewing his mother’s body. The following day, back in Algiers, Meursault meets a young woman, Marie Cardona, and they go swimming together. Because of Meursault’s cheerful
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Influence of Existentialism on a human free will. Existentialist ideas came out of a time in society when there was a deep sense of despair following the Great Depression and World War II. Society's spirit of optimism was destroyed and this helped to move term of existentialism. Existentialism impacts on many aspects. One of them is human free will. Existentialism affects people by raising an important question about creation of people and their position in life .Human searches for adequate decisions
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The term Existentialism is the idea that the individual controls their own choices and destiny compared to believing in a higher being. In other words, all the events that occur during an individual’s lifespan are caused by their own discretion. Terror Management Theory refers to how humans rely on self- esteem as a means of protection against the inevitable death (Harmon-Jones et al.1997, pg. 24). Terror Management Theory states that self-esteem plays a vital role in either enhancing or diminishing
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Grendel, the Zodiac, and Western Philosophy Due: Thursday, November 5th! 1. Aries—the Ram: Part One: Zodiac: The sign of Aries marks the beginning of a new cycle of the zodiac; however, there is nothing unique or special about this new cycle, b/c it is just like the cycle that has just ended. According to Grendel, the ram (Aries) acts the same way he did “last year at this time, and the year before, and the year before that.” All has happened before, all will happen again. Part Two: Philosophy:
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The theme of Grendel by John Gardner is what does our life mean? Do we make our own meaning of life or is there a meaning made for us? I think that Grendel’s doubt of a life with meaning started when he was young. Grendel talks a lot about his mom being uncaring. For example in the story he says “the shocking separateness from me in my mama’s eyes” which shows that his mom wasn’t very nurturing to him. He also says “I would bawl and hurl myself at my mother and she would reach out her claws and seize
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Authenticity. Authenticity is a word that could be described in so many different ways. Some say it’s trueness while others say it’s legitimacy. Google even defines authenticity as ‘of undisputed origin’ and ‘genuine’. With reference towards people, authenticity to me is a person’s truth or self identity. There’s a quote that says “You were born to be real, not perfect”. I feel like being perfect is not cute anymore. I believe in authenticity because staying true is better than being fake. Growing
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for making themselves who they are, as explained by the famous philosopher Sartre – “’being precedes essence’: each human being makes himself what he is, creating, and recreating continually, himself and his world” (Rapport and Overing, 2003). Existentialism believes that the only issue is if you are in bad faith – the perception you give others is not who you truly are, your “being for self” and “being for others” are not similar. Being for self is the judgements which can be placed on you due to
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Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish Philosopher that was very far ahead of his time on internal studies. The father of existentialism brought “The stages of life’s way” which is his interpretation of a human life’s stages through age, experience, and the journey to creating your true self. The three life stages are the Aesthetic, the Ethical, and the Religious. While you can easily move from an Aesthetic and living for personal passions into an Ethical who has more societal views of betterment; becoming
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