Existentialist

By only describing the physical aspects of life, Meursault reveals another trait of the existentialist; that he doesn't care about anyone or anything, regardless of who or what it is. Meursault simply goes through his day doing whatever happens and doesn't do anything about it to change what is happening in his life. This is the viewpoint that Meursault has throughout the novel; that things just happen the way they happen and they are uncontrollable by anyone, especially himself. This view on life

Journal 7: Chapter 4 Existentialist Café Discussion & Lecture on Freedom and Consciousness Heidegger emphasized that you can only project on where you stand. We can’t just get up and get started on something new immediately if we decide that our current situation is something that we don’t want anymore. An example would be me deciding if I should still pursue my Master’s degree, or just finding a new job so I can earn some money for stuff. Considering this, I initially pursued it because I felt

Meursault, the protagonist in Albert Camus’s The Stranger, emerges as an existentialist hero as he is the figurative embodiment of the absurd. Meursault denies that the traditional religion is true, asserts that the unexamined life is worth living, and insists that life is absurd. It is argued that Meursault is unjustly sentenced to death, as he is condemned for his social mores rather than for murdering the Arab, however Meursault exhibits misogynistic attitudes toward women, perpetrated prejudicial

Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a tragic play about murder, betrayal, revenge, madness, and moral corruption. It touches upon philosophical ideas such as existentialism and relativism. Prince Hamlet frequently questions the meaning of life and the degrading of morals as he agonizes over his father’s murder, his mother’s incestuous infidelity, and what he should or shouldn’t do about it. At first, he is just depressed; still mourning the loss of his father as his mother marries his uncle. After he learns

caring, and dependable. These may sounds like worthy qualities at first, but together they form a major source of oppression for any caregiving figure, and different feminist theories such as care-focused feminism, psychoanalytic feminism, and existentialist feminism all have something to say about it. Motherhood is certainly a necessary role in a family and even in society, but the social construction around this role has led to many different ideas about the way mothers and caregivers are treated

The Existentialist Views of Hamlet        Do we matter? Will anything we do endure? These are questions from existentialism. The dictionary defines existentialism as "the plight of the individual who must assume ultimate responsibility for his acts of free will without any certain knowledge of what is right or wrong or good or bad" (Merriam Webster). In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Hamlet struggles with the concept that nothing from our lives last and time grinds everything away

I consider myself an existentialist. There are two basic approaches to this philosophy: either one rejoices in the freedom of the idea that a higher power is not imposing rules and purpose onto our existence, or, one sinks beneath the burden of responsibility that this bequeaths. Existentialists like Sartre, who can only see the bleak and meaningless aspects of living, have missed the opportunity that this philosophy gives to structure and guide their lives based on their own inner moral principles

He is connects the idea of atheism to existentialism. Believing god does not exist, then there is no higher power to determine a purpose for people. Simone de Beauvoir is a French existentialist. Her most famous work, the Second sex, talks about the historical treatment of women. The Second Sex is considered a major work promoting feminism. Albert Camus is a French philosophy known for his work, the Rebel. The Rebel mainly discusses rebellion

1. What are the five core existentialist themes and how are they exemplified in the philosophy of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre, and Camus?  The five core existentialists themes include: individualism and subjectivity; freedom and responsibility; existence and essence; anguish and absurdity; authenticity. Existentialism gets rid of the one-size-fits-all notion that philosophy revolved around in the prior years. Its individualism and subjectivity allows for each individual person to choose what is

behavioral concept of human nature includes both personal and environmental determinants of human behavior" (Smith,2016) I also strongly agree with Existentialist views on human nature. "The main focus of existentialist deals with human existence and what it means to be alive. To be human means asking question about our very existence. Existentialists assert that searching for meaning in life is a distinctly human characteristic." (Smith 2016). The reason I picked these two theories human nature