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What it is vs. that it is
Sartre: Existence precedes essence. This is what differentiates humans from animals. |
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God is absolute spirit
People must surrender the particular for the universal to act ethically |
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The human being's ability to create the genuinely new/human creativity.
One of the last things to be destroyed by authoritarian states |
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| Teleological Suspension of the Ethical |
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| The problem that we cannot predict ends ultimately means that we cannot act ethically, but god allows us to transcend this, as he is the ultimate telos. |
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| Nietzsche's idea of valorizing weakness. |
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| Present-at-hand/Ready-at-hand |
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| Heidegger makes the distinction between things we know in the abstract or theoretical way and things we know in their involvement in the world, through understanding or interpreting. Example of the hammer. |
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| Essentially Buber's way of knowing God. Rather than experiencing Him, we engage with something or someone else. We encounter Him when encountering normal things genuinely. |
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| Nietzschean. Source of the slave morality is slave's ressentiment, or resentment. |
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| we are born into conditions and therefore, Dasein is as a fact; our facticity frames what we can know. Therefore, we can only be free through choices. |
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| Protagonist of Ikiru; first frees death and then confronts it authentically, trying to solve problems before dying. |
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| We cannot escape our way of understanding, so we have to be aware of the ways in which it constitutes and limits us. |
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De-creation
Weil
renders one alone, abandoned, facing the abyss, existential crisis |
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| idea of human progression, rejected by Arendt, etc |
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| Nietzsche: all philosophical views are established from different perspectives. |
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| Kgaard: anxiety/angst, paradox of Abraham |
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| The idea of consciousness as posited by heidegger: there-being. |
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