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Name 3 existentialists
-Jean Paul Sartre
-Soren Kierkegaard
-Friedrich Nietzsche
-Albert Camus
The branch of philosophy that beleives we are born and then we find our purpose through authentic emotionally-crushing free will.
What is existentialism?
Where did Plato and Aristotle live?
Ancient Greece
What does it mean to be authentic?
To do what you love and enjoy; to not have anyone influence your decisions
What is the essential property of a doorknob?
To open a door
Considered the founder of existentialism because he was the first.
Who is Kierkegaard?
The inability to find mean is in the world that surrounds you.
What is absurdism?
The continent that served as the birthplace of existentialism.
What is Europe?
What are 3 common ways people find meaning in life?
-love
-friendship
-a relationship with a significant other
-work
-art
-sports
-music
-money
... and way, way more!
Sartre's idea that a human being must take part in the decision making process. We cannot be mindless robots void of resposibility.
What is "Man is not a THING."
Believed we are not born with a purpose and we have to figure it out ourselves over time and through experience.
Who is Jean Paul Sartre?
Life is purposeless
What is Nihilism?
What major worldwide event lead a large number of people to believe in existentialism?
World War II
A popular children's movie franchise where action figures and dolls have secret lives. They struggle to assign meaning to their existence as time passes.
What is Toy Story?
True or False: All existentialists are atheists
False
Famously said: "“there are no facts, only interpretations.” There is no objectivity, only subjectivity.
Who is Friedrich Nietzsche?
That feeling you have when you understand how many different choices you are available but you know that you do not have enough information to choose wisely
What is angst?
Who are the bourgeois?
What is one social consequence of thinking life is meaningless?
(example: no order)
- no cosmic justice
- no rules
- no fairness
According to Hank Green in the "Existentialism" Crash Course, a student asked for Jean Paul Sartre's advice on which path he should take. What were the two paths?
To go to war or to stay home & help his elderly mom
Who was scared of man's abundant freedom?
Jean Paul Sartre
Nietzsche's superior individual
What is the ubermensch?
Wrote fictional novels, plays, and essays to both entertain people and introduce them to existentialism.
Who is Sartre?
Anime about Rock, Dutch, Benny, and Revy. The characters of the show are "condemned to freedom" and defined by the choices they make in Roanapur.
What is Black Lagoon?
Who said: “Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world’s foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will regret that too; laugh at the world’s foolishness or weep over it, you will regret both."
Kierkegaard