lesson 6 Flashcards
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
Henry David Thoreau
20th century American Poet that captures the tragic moment in a one-liner in the third poem “The Dry Salvages” of his four Quartets.
T.S. Eliot
“We had the experience but missed the meaning”
T.S Eliot
had the unfortunate experience of being a prisoner of the Nazi armed Forces in the Auschwitz concentration camp during world war II.
Viktor Frankl
A Holocaust survivor that chronicled his harrowing experiences and reflected their deep meanings in his celebrated book with with the significant title, Man’s Search for meaning Published in 1946.
Viktor Frankl
“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose”
Viktor Frankl
Man’s Search for their Meaning published in 1946
Viktor Frankl
Of three types of people, they qualify as the pathetic kind.
Wonder
Atheistic-nihilistic
Jean-Paul Sartre
Albert Camus
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Theistic-Metaphysical
Soren Kierkegaard
Karl Jaspers
Gabriel Marcel
Martin Buber
He refused to be identified as Atheistic-nihilistic or Theistic-Metaphysical and yet his earlier themes and premises were fundamentally existential. Phenomenology.
Martin Heidegger
Derived from personal experience
Existentialism
“Anonymus” man drifting along with the crowd mentality
Soren Kierkegards
“Dasein” thrown into the world and unable to make free choices in life
Martin Heidegger
