I was just wondering if any twwers were interested in this stuff, had taken the class before (PHI310), or anything of that sort. Anything you'd like to add, please post. I'm currently writing a response paper on Kierkegaard's notion of truth... discuss if you wish. This whole idea of subjective truth, self-inwardness, and complete and utter passion for something without reason is a viable idea, just not one I can identify with...

2/1/2006 11:10:57 PM

try the soap box. all the idiots who like to spew meaningless drivel hang out in there

2/1/2006 11:13:36 PM

^Yeah, i suppose this would have been better suited in the soap box. honestly i've never read anything there... didn't even think to post there. Maybe someone will move it, otherwise it'll be a free thread... or it'll just die soon enough.

2/1/2006 11:23:35 PM

it's a funny way of looking at things. my greatest exposure to it is the japanese existentialist verbs. those are very cool. you should learn them.

it's like, you don't say something is something else, you say that something exists as something else.

2/1/2006 11:59:12 PM

As Sartre puts it, “existence precedes essence.”

2/2/2006 2:31:54 AM

watch I <3 Huckabees

2/2/2006 2:34:00 AM

"She said FUCKABEE'S."

2/2/2006 3:11:25 AM

don't call it the ball thing, call it pure being

2/2/2006 3:37:02 AM

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"watch I <3 Huckabees"

if you like being bored...

2/2/2006 3:58:07 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism

Has a long list of authors if interested. Othwerise, actual discussion should be put in the soap box.

2/2/2006 5:26:29 AM

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"watch I <3 Huckabees"

2/2/2006 9:08:45 AM

watch "waking life"

it's a great film and deals directly with the subject of existentialism

2/2/2006 9:08:49 AM

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"try the soap box. all the idiots who like to spew meaningless drivel hang out in there"

i resent that, i lurk everywhere

2/2/2006 9:46:27 AM

Read The Stranger by Albert Camus (spelling?)

2/2/2006 9:54:37 AM

the meaning of life is life itself. there is no higher purpose.

2/2/2006 9:55:56 AM

God is dead

2/2/2006 11:52:31 AM

Nietzsche wasn't really an existentialist

I recommend The Plague by Albert Camus
and various works by Sartre if you want to understand French existentialism

its a liberating and terrifying ideology at the same time hinged on personal responsibility

2/2/2006 12:21:02 PM

fart

2/2/2006 12:27:54 PM

Marina Bykova, who was my prof for phi 310, definitely had a portion of her class devoted to Nietzsche and his influence on existentialism.

i just threw out the "God is dead" quote b/c it was the only thing that i can fully remember from that class...i hated it immensely...but i remember Bykova starting off her lecture in her thick german accent... "God is dead!"...it's just one of those images that i'll never forget.

2/2/2006 12:31:03 PM

Bykova is russian btw

2/2/2006 2:17:14 PM

that's right...german philosophy was her thing--that's why i got it mixed up.

2/2/2006 2:21:39 PM

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"I recommend The Plague by Albert Camus and various works by Sartre if you want to understand French existentialism its a liberating and terrifying ideology at the same time hinged on personal responsibility"

seconded

and throw in some Samuel Beckett for lighthearted/absurdist side of it.


then there's Wolfpack existentialism. its where you keep rooting for your team year after year, hoping and praying...then you do it again.

2/2/2006 2:34:36 PM

Notes from Underground is the best introduction to Existentialism.

If you want an even shorter, yet great, introduction, go with the short story The Wall by Sartre. The full text is even available for free online

2/2/2006 2:45:57 PM

yeah, but we're not in infinity, we're in the suburbs

2/2/2006 7:08:33 PM

there is no spoon.

2/2/2006 7:48:00 PM

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"the meaning of life is life itself. there is no higher purpose. "

Or lower purpose.

2/2/2006 9:05:48 PM