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Existentialism Education
Existentialism Education
Existentialism Education
and EDUCATION
PART A
ontology, epistemology,
ethics and being
Ren Guray
compose
KNOWLEDGE
Existentialist epistemology emerges
from the recognition that human
experience and knowledge are
subjective, personal, rational and
irrational.
- Gutek, p. 119
Existentialist
Ethics
What is Good?
Man is condemned
to be free.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
The highest morality is a recognition
of freedom; the lowest morality is the
subjection of individual consciousness
to standards or principles which have
been preordained.
- Karl Jaspers as quoted by Kneller, p. 65
I am therefore ultimately responsible
for my own choices. The individual is
the author of his own good. He can
make himself accountable to no other
moral force or factor.
- Morris, p. 277
What is good? -- All that
heightens the feeling of power,
the will to power, power itself in
man.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Existentialist
Man
Who is the authentic man?
I am that which must
overcome itself again
and again.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Human Development
Pre-existential Period
- prior to puberty, elementary period
- not yet conscious of personal identity
Existential Moment
- awareness of presence in the world
- insight into his own consciousness and
responsibilities