Ch14 Flashcards
What is existentialism?
most important matters invovle fundamental questions of meaning and choice as they effect existing individuals
According to Kierkegaard, what is authenticity and inauthenticity?
inauthenicity : when peoples needs are disreguarded , or made less important than institutions or groups
authenicity: someone who does not rely on groups for finding meaning and purpose, but live honestly
Describe what “Objectivity as Untruth” means from Kierkegaard’s perspective as it
relates to “Becoming a Subject.”
Objectivity of untruth: beleif that being objective, or impartial, is not “honest” that in stiving to be unbiased you are being biased.
Objectivity lacks passion. in this we will say, btu not do.
By being objective we detatch from ourselves
Describe Kierkegaard’s three stages on life’s way. Which stage of life is best and why?
Aesthetic Stage: persuit of pleasure, “easy going, falls into the crowd, lack of comitment
Ethical Stage: devoted to certain principles , earnest and thinks about decisions before making them.
Reilgous stage:( best !) being wthical, but realizing they cannot be positive, or sure themselves, but that you cannot be positive it is the right decision, you must rely on god
In the story of Abraham and Isaac, what does “the teleological suspension of the ethical mean?” What does faith have to do with this suspension? Is God absurd, according to Kierkegaard?
If abraham was just being ethical he would not have been willing to sacrifice his son. He suspended the belief that killing is bad because god commanded him. God is absurd in the worlds eyes.
