May Flashcards
The founder of modern existentialism
Soren Kierkegaard
Meaning of existence takes precedence over essence
process and growth are important than product and stagnation
To emerge or to become; suggests process; associated with growth and change
existence
Static immutable substance; signifies stagnation and finality
essence
Basic unity of a person and their environment; being-in-the-world
Dasein
The illness of our time; separation from nature
Alienation
World of objects and things and would exist even if people had no awareness
Umwelt
Includes biological drives such as hunger, sleep and natural phenomena (birth and death)
Umwelt
Our world and relations with other people
Mitwelt
Relationship with oneself or awareness of oneself as human being
Eigenwelt
Ilustrated his notion of existentialism through this study
the case of philip
Subjective state of the individuals becoming aware that his/her existence can be destroyed and that he could become nothing
Anxiety
Also called the dizziness of freedom
anxiety
Anxiety: is proportionate to the threat, does not involve repression, and can be handled on a conscious level
normal anxiety
Anxiety: disprportionate to the threat and that leads to repression and defensive behaviors
neurotic anxiety
Arises whenever people deny their potentialities, fail to accurately perceive the needs of others, or remain blind to their dependence on the natural world
guilt
ontological means…
refer to the nature of being and not feelings of specific situations
Alienation or blinded sa advancement sa society esp technology na maseparate sa nature
Unwelt ontological guilt
Same with Fromm’s concept of human dilemma
separation guilt
Inability to perceive accurately the world of others
Mitwelt ontological guilt
Denial of our own potentialities or with failure to fulfill them; same with Maslow’s Jonah complex
Eigenwelt ontological guilt
The structure that gives meaning to experience and allows people to make decisions about the future
Intentionality
Overcome the dichotomy between subject and object
Intentionality
Coexist with intentionality (inseparable factor)
action impulses
Is an active process that suggests that things matter; opposite of apathy
care
Source of love and will
care
Delight in the presence of the other person and an affirming of that person’s value and development as much as one’s own
Love
Capacity to organize one’s self so that movement in a certain direction or toward a certain goal may take place; different with wish
will
A vague sense of mental or moral ill-being
malaise
Forms of love
eros, sex, philia and agape
Biological function that can be satisfied through sexual intercourse or some other release of sexual tension
Sex
Psychological desire that seeks procreation or creation through an enduring union with a loved one
Eros
Intimate non-sexual friendship between 2 people
Philia
Altruistic love and spiritual love; unconditional love
Agape
When we recognize that death is a possibility at any moment and when we are willing to experience changes, even in the face of not knowing what those changes will bring
Freedom
Forms of freedom
Existential and essential freedom
Freedom of action or doing
Existential freedom
Freedom of being
Essential freedom
The design of the universe speaking through the design of each one of us
Destiny
Freedom and ____ are intertwined; one cannot exist without the other
destiny
Conscious and unconscious belief systems that provide explanations for personal and social problems; akin to Jung’s collective unconscious
Myths
The chief existential disorders of our time
Apathy and emptiness
The goal of May’s therapy
To set people free, to allow them to make choices and to assume responsibility for those choices
People distance themselves from animals because animals remind them of their own physical bodies and death
Terror management theory
Awareness of mortality causes us to reprioritize our goals in life
Awakening experience/reality check
