Socrates

Existent

.Existentialism.

General Remarks.

A revolt against the rationalist overstate of orientation of traditional philosophy.

The quest of the philosopher was the quest for the ultimate unity.

[God, universal essence]

1. The individual vs the system (Kierkagaard)

His epitaph: "the individual"

• Traditional philosophy verses the world [reality] as a rational system. (Caused by God or coasting toward a goal.
• The philosophical system is conceptual articulated [framework] of external realities.

Existentialism. But the world is not a system! And it is not rational.. '. Therefore or the individual cannot be understood within a system.

Point. What does it mean for any thing to exist? "Existence is not a predicate.

The concept of an object does not entail its existence.

1. Intentionality

- What is belief, willing, emotion, feeling, mental status?

Traditional philosophy. Viewed these as natural events. The same applies to conscience(in general).

• But for the existentialist conscious is always consciousness of "_____"
• Explain
• Implication I can not know the other as he or she is in themselves: but as only as an object.
• Being is Absurdity.

Consider Liebniz: - Question Why are there things rather than not?

This question presupposes the principle of sufficient reason - Every event has a sufficient cause.

- Traditional philosophy was in a way based on the principle. . '. God necessarily exists.

But existentialism considers the Liebneiz question misleading.

(On the contrary: On the contrary: The world (reality) is contin gend absund~! )

(There is no ultimate explanation for why things exist. )

- To say that a very thing has a cause implies that humans are not free!

1. Freedom(choose)

Essence precedes Existence! But no existence precedes essence]

Explain

we condemned to choose what we do in our life? ..

1. Anxiety, ,death
2. Commensurate
3. Memory