Existentialism

Waking Life Transcript - Chapter 2. (Main character walks through the airport and telephones his friend - 322.0031.

There's a girl there, and he sees her.) Hey man, it's me. Um, I just got back into town. I thought maybe I could bum a ride off you or something, but that's cool. Alan Watts - Is It Serious. Is It Serious? by Alan Watts. Is It Serious?

By Alan Watts (This sublimely playful essay on creative mythology is Chapter 2 of Watts' brilliant book Beyond Theology, published in 1964, now unfortunately out of print. The book offers a startling revision of Christian theology/mythology through the lens of Hindu mythology and cosmology! - Craig) Alina Simone: This is how the world ends? Cosmologist Alex Vilenkin gave a lecture at the Hayden Planetarium in Manhattan earlier this year called “The Universe and Beyond.”

I attended the talk with a few of my friends, and we all had the same reaction: “That was awesome! I didn’t understand a thing.” I understood even less of the lecture than the rest of my friends, which pretty much makes me the poster child for regression toward the mean, because Alex Vilenkin is my father. Existential Primer: Home Page. An overview of this absurd space Since 1996, The Existential Primer has provided an introduction to existentialism and the related Continental philosophies.

As a primer, the website explores connections between many individuals, works, and concepts instead of offering narrow specialization. Scholars appreciate the need for both narrow and broad analyses, which serve different purposes. When you read each section, do not expect narrowly focused depth — by definition, this website offers a survey of the topics and individuals important to existentialism. To locate book-length analyses of one thinker — or one work by that individual — use the complete bibliography. My passion is creative writing and how “creative” works affect social change. Do not go gentle into that good night. Dylan Marlais Thomas was born on October 27, 1914, in Swansea, South Wales.

His father was an English Literature professor at the local grammar school and would often recite Shakespeare to Thomas before he could read. He loved the sounds of nursery rhymes, foreshadowing his love for the rhythmic ballads of Gerard Manley Hopkins, W. B. Yeats, and Edgar Allan Poe. Although both of his parents spoke fluent Welsh, Thomas and his older sister never learned the language, and Thomas wrote exclusively in English.

Thomas was a neurotic, sickly child who shied away from school and preferred reading on his own. By December of 1932, he left his job at the Post and decided to concentrate on his poetry full-time. In 1934, when Thomas was twenty, he moved to London, won the Poet’s Corner book prize, and published his first book, 18 Poems (The Fortune press), to great acclaim. Play It Again Sam - Allan trying to talk to a girl. Camus, Albert [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] Albert Camus was a French-Algerian existentialist.

He was a journalist, playwright, novelist, writer of philosophical essays, and Nobel laureate. Though neither by advanced training nor profession a philosopher, Camus nevertheless through his literary works and in numerous reviews, articles, essays, and speeches made important, forceful contributions to a wide range of issues in moral philosophy – from terrorism and political violence to suicide and the death penalty.

Marcell Jankovics Sisyphus 1974. The Myth of Sisyphus - Existential Psychology. Teacher_20110228_0754. The ConnectionThe Connection. Listen / Download Brain Science, George Lakoff says, is overturning twenty-five centuries of Western Philosophy.

Philosophy Bro. Camus vs. Sartre (Rare BBC Documentary) Metamorphosis. Study Questions on Kafka' Study Questions on Kafka's The Metamorphosis English 207: World Folktales and Literature Dr.

Tina L. HanlonFerrum Collegethanlon@ferrum.edu Folktales and Literature Course Home Page "The terror of art is that the dream reveals the reality. " Online text of The Metamorphosis Note: I most likely copied or adapted some of these questions from a variety of teaching resources. Background: Franz Kafka, one of the most influential writers of the early twentieth century, was born in Prague in 1883 and died in 1924. Nabokov Vladimir - Lecture on The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. Watch "Short Film: 'Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life'" Video at New York Magazine. Napkin Theology 10 - Existentialsim. Existentialism. I.

Absolute Individuality and Absolute Freedom. The Existentialist conceptions of freedom and value arise from their view of the individual. Since we are all ultimately alone, isolated islands of subjectivity in an objective world, we have absolute freedom over our internal nature, and the source of our value can only be internal. II. The Existentialist View of Human Nature. Existentialism is defined by the slogan Existence precedes Essence. 1. 2. 3. 4. The Existentialist View (We create our own nature.): We are thrown into existence first without a predetermined nature and only later do we construct our nature or essence through our actions.

This slogan is opposed to the traditional view that Essence precedes Existence, according to which we are seen as having a given nature that determines what we are and what our ultimate purpose or value is. The Traditional View (which Sartre argues against): The human situation for the Existentialist is thus characterized by:

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