EXISTENTIALISM

Method of Philisophyzing
Philosophizing
 To philosophize is to think
philosophically or just deeply and
reflectively. On a long car trip, after
you run out of school gossip, you and
your friends might philosophize on
the nature of man, or the question.
 Existentialism

 Based upon him, existentialism is a

philosophy acclaiming the freedom
of the individual human being. It is
all about the freedom of a person.
 Existentialism emphasizes the
importance of free individual
choice, regardless of the power of
other people to influence and
coerce our desires, beliefs, and
decisions.
 Existentialism features the choice
and freedom of a person one search
for truth might be based on one
attitude or outlook for instance.
Existentialism is more of an attitude
supported by diverse doctrine
centered on certain common themes.
The themes include:
 The human conditionor the relation of
the individual to the world;
 The human response to that condition;
 being,especially the difference between
the being of person(which is
"existence") and the being of the other
kinds of things;
 Human freedom;
 The significance(and unavoidability)of
choice and decision in the absence of
certainty and;
 The concreteness and subjectivity of life
as lived against abstractions and false
objectifications.
 Soren
Kierkegaard  As the first
existentialist,
Kierkegaard insisted
that the authentic
self was the
personally chosen
self, as opposed to
public or "herd"
identity.
Freiderich
Nietzsche  Nietzche took this
view of opposition
of the genuine
individual versus
the public "herd"
identity.
  Existentialism, with Sartre, a French
Jean Paul Satre philosopher, emphasizes the importance of
free individual choice, regardless of the
power of othe people to influence and coerce
pur desires, beliefs, and decisions.

 Sartre argued that consciousness (being-for-

itself) is such that it is always free to choose
(though not feee not to choose) and free to
"negate" (or reject) the given features of the
world.

 Existentialism, with Sartre, a French

philosopher, emphasizes the importance of
free individual choice, regardless of the
power of othe people to influence and coerce
pur desires, beliefs, and decisions. Sartre
argued that consciousness (being-for-itself) is
such that it is always free to choose (though
not feee not to choose) and free to "negate"
(or reject) the givwn features of the world.
  The notion of authenticity is not
Socrates new. Socrates already concerned
himself with the authenticity of
the self—the genuineness of his
thoughts and actions, "the good
of his soul."
 He sought not mere opinions but
knowledge, self knowledge in
particular, and prescribed not just
right action but virtue, being
"true to oneself."
 St. Augustine was concerned with
the spiritual nature of the "true"
self as opposed to the inauthentic
demands of desire and the body.
Jean-Jacques  Jean Jacques
Rousseau Rousseau was
adamant about the
essential goodness
of the "natural" self
in contrast to the
"corruption"
imposed by society
(Baird & Kaufmann
1997).
 Group 2
 Clarence Cajan
 Shaira Antonet Gonzales
 Romulo Calmateo
 Jane Precious Javier
 Marc Lester Canoso
 Zyne Labrador
 Mark Christian Castillo
 Khtistine Macaro
 Mark Eldreen Dela Cruz
 Jessica Marionne