Following the dictionary, existentialism is a philosophical theory that “is centered upon the analysis of existence and the way humans find themselves existing in the world”; besides, it also “emphasizes the responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will”. In other words, it refers the freedom and how people are responsible for their action. "The Guest" is an example of an existential crisis because of Daru, the main character in this article, shows up his existential
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Group Counseling: Effective Under Certain Circumstances Reflecting upon my group experiences as well as the lessons from class, I’ve come to the conclusion that group counseling is most effective under certain circumstances. These circumstances include a feeling of being alone, having a lack of support, and a need for modeling. When these conditions are met, I have found that group therapy can be even more effective than individual counseling. Feeling Alone Feeling alone in one’s experiences can
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Nietzsche declared that God was dead and believed that people would be completely lost after this realization. He also proposed the two major aspects of human nature, the Apollonian and the Dionysian. Jung proposed that the collective unconscious, information reflective of human experience as a whole, was the most important component of personality. Kierkegaard stressed faith and having a personal relationship with God. Batson formed the three-dimensional model of religion, which characterized how
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1. Meursault is very aware of his surroundings during the vigil as demonstrated by his use of extremely descriptive details of the older men and women, as seen in this quote, “I saw them more clearly than I had ever seen anyone, and not one detail of their faces or their clothes escaped me” (9, 10). He noticed every little thing about them, their toothless mouths, their fat stomachs, and their nests of wrinkles. He thought they were judging him so he started picking out their flaws. 2. Meursault
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One’s ability to examine his or her own thoughts or feelings is a key aspect of human awareness and is significant in every social activity. To understand who and how one is, one repeats his or her own experiences and actions. In Grendel, John Gardner, the author, writes to a broad audience to people from the modern time. This time period brought reflection of why people believed what they do. John Gardner retells the poem Beowulf from the perspective of Grendel, the protagonist. The intended audience
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The Stranger is an novel written by Albert Camus. This novel is about a man named Merusault. At the beginning of the novel Merusault mother dies. As the novel develops we learn that Merusault doesn’t really express his feelings about his mother death. He didn’t feel guilty and didn’t show that hr was sad about his mother death. I believe Merusault should have felt guilty for his mother death. I believe he should have felt guilty because now that his mother is gone there will be no other women who
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nature in the form of the theory of argument from design and also determinism. Then I will proceed to examine the argument against a fixed human nature, in the theory of existentialism. Lastly I intend to show the evidence, as to why I conclude that there is no such thing as a fixed human nature, and that the theory of existentialism is the plausible argument. I will examine now, the idea that all humans have a fixed human nature. Plato and Aristotle were the first to concur on metaphysics as the
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The term Theatre of the Absurd was first used by Martin Esslin, a literary critic, who used it to connect Samuel Becket, Eugene Ionesco, Jean Genet and Arthur Adamov as the primary playwrights of the Absurd in his study from 1961. This dramatic movement developed in Paris during the 1950s and it declined in the mid 1960s. These dramatists are chiefly concerned with expressing a sense of wonder, of incomprehension, and at times of despair, at the lack of cohesion that they find in the world. The
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the anti-hero of modern literature. This is defined as “the suffering consciousness who does not act but who hides within his ego, disgusted by the obscene reality of external things (La Nausee, 1938). He also advocated the moral posture of existentialism. This philosophy is based on the self and takes precedence over moral code and custom in which others have a voice. His philosophy paints a portrait of the predicament we are placed in by self-consciousness in the world of objects. True to
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Kierkegaard vs. Nietzsche Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche are known to be two of the greatest nineteenth century existentialists of all time. Existentialism is a philosophy that emphasizes the uniqueness and isolation of the individual experience in a hostile or indifferent universe. It regards human existence as unexplainable, and stresses freedom of choice and responsibility for the consequences of one's acts. Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche both felt that life is irrational
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