may ID Flashcards
basic tenet of existentialism
- process and growth are more important than product and stagnation
- existentialists oppose the artificial split between subject and object.
- stress people’s search for meaning in their lives
- each of us is responsible for who we are and what we will become. Can’t blame parents
- anti-theoretical position, believing that theories tend to objectify people
- People have an equal degree of both freedom and responsibility (people frequently run away both from making choices and from assuming responsibility.)
being-in-the-world
Dasein
Three modes of being-in-the-world are:
Umwelt
Mitwelt
Eigenwelt
one’s relationship with the world of things
Umwelt
one’s relationship with the world of people
Mitwelt
one’s relationship with oneself
Eigenwelt
an awareness of the possibility of one’s not
being, through death or loss of awareness is called
Nonbeing, or nothingness
when they are aware of the possibility of their nonbeing as well as when they are aware that they are free to choose, people experience:
anxiety
2 kinds of anxiety
normal
neurotic
People experience ontological guilt as a result of their
(1) separation from the natural world (umwelt)
(2) inability to judge the needs of others (mitwelt)
(3) denial of their own potentials. (eigenwelt)
the underlying structure that gives meaning to experience and allows people to make decisions about the future is called
Intentionality
taking delight in the presence of the other person and affirming that person’s value as much as one’s own is
love
freedom of action/doing, freedom to move about, to pursue tangible goals
Existential freedom
freedom of being, freedom to think, to plan, to hope
Essential freedom
belief systems, both conscious and unconscious, that provide explanations for personal and social problems
Cultural myths
