EXISTENTIALISM

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EXISTENTIALISM

• Truth about Ourselves

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Controversial Philosophy
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• Some refuse to give it full status as a
  philosophy
• 20th century
• Kierkegaard
• Some pessimistic, atheistic
• Some positive, theistic

Søren Kierkegaard
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METAPHYSICS

• Existence Precedes Essence
• Thrown into meaningless world
• Find our own meaning essence
• State of Becoming
• Think decide for yourself what you will become
• Self-actualization
• Live Life to the Fullest

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Existential Moment

• Puberty Selfhood place in world
• Realize self in a world of selfs
• Responsibility for ourselves is ours
• Cant rely on anyone else to take responsibility
  for us.

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REALITY

• Final Reality resides within you
• You are the center of your own universe
• Reality lies within you
• You are in charge
• Reality is centered in yourself

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Be good to yourself

• Commitment to yourself
• You are the most important person in the world
• Self-actualization is highest level in Mazlows
  hierarchy

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Choice making and freedom

• Plan what you want to become, but must consider
• Consequences for our choices
• OK to fail
• Without failure no happiness or ecstasy
• No unhappiness, no way to know happiness

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Choice Freedom

• Resist losing oneself in a group
• Lose freedom
• Resist giving right of choice or freedom away to
  someone else
• Making decisions for you
• Never reach your essence

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Helping Relationships

• Role of people (those around us)
• Help you to become what you are capable of being
• I will help you succeed, but you possess your
  own answers.
• Facilitator

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Epistemology

• BEING IN ITSELF
• BEING FOR ITSELF

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BEING IN ITSELF

• Things that have a predetermined existence
• Something just is what it is
• Just the way it appears to be
• Fact

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BEING FOR ITSELF

• Live a life that is chosen
• Recognize mortality
• Awareness pain conflict
• joy happiness
• Need to become what we are capable of becoming
• Process of giving life meaning

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MODE 1

• Scientific mode
• BEING IN ITSELF
• Example Flower has parts

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MODE II

• Phenomenology
• BEING FOR ITSELF
• Assign meaning
• Example Flower is beautiful, reminds me
• This is the feeling tone

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Relationship

• I -- Object
• BEING IN ITSELF
• Objectify, fact
• I -- Subject
• BEING FOR ITSELF
• Im OK, Youre OK
• Hell is when other people try to objectify me
  instead of subjectify me. Sartre

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Truth

• How do we learn knowledge?
• How do we know what we know?
• Knowledge must be subjectified
• Knowledge created from our own meaning
• We must
• Help people find meaning subjectify
• Give freedom choice

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Existential Nothingness

• Existence
• Non-existence
• Coping with existence and non-existence at the
  same time
• Increases sensitivity
• Height of creativity
• Open to everything in nothingness

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Existential Anxiety

• Nothing to something to nothing
• Dread of demise creates anxiety
• Anxiety helps
• Motivation
• Appreciate life more
• Makes life fuller, more powerful

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LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE OF IT

• Bury your head
• Give away your choices
• OR
• Face reality
• Become what you can become
• Do everything you can today because there may not
  be tomorrow.

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Axiology

• Ethics
• Decide options consequences
• NO GUILT
• Battered Real life knocks
• Coping mechanisms
• Toughen up
• Never talk badly about yourself

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Ethics

• Values
• No absolutes
• Freedom of choice
• Existential Moment
• Values based on you
• Consequences
• Cant rely on anyone but ourselves
• You have to think of the consequences of your
  choices

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Ethics

• Religion
• Strong camp believe in Supreme Being
• as if Live life as if there is a Supreme
  Being
• Individual and personal God
• Cant force anyone else to believe, but I can
  choose to believe

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Aesthetics
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• Self-expression
• Individually create
• Individually assign value
• Art for art sake
• intended for the artist
• Meaning belongs to me

Reality (Watercolor)
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Existentialism

• Choice freedom
• Accept Responsibility
• Consequences are important
• No guilt
• You have to make the best of life
• Therapy is good to learn about yourself
• Nothingness
• Anxiety
• Not judgmental

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