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he wished to understand people as they in the world as thinking, active, and willing beings
søren kierkegaard
soren kierkegaard emphasized a balance between _________ and _______
freedom and responsibility
common elements of existentialism:
existence takes precedence over essense
existentialism opposes the split between subject and object
people search for some meaning to their lives
existentialists hold that ultimately each of us is responsible for who we are and what we become
existentialists are basically antitheoretical
meaning to esixt there
Dasein
three simultaneous modes in their being-in-the-world
umwelt
mitwelt
eigenwelt
subjective state of the individual’s becoming aware that his or her existence can be destroyed, that he can become nothing
anxiety
types of anxiety
normal anxiety
neurotic anxiety
-proportionate to the threat
-does not involve repression
-can be confronted constructively on the conscious level
normal anxiety
-disproportionate to the threat
-involves repression and other forms of intrapsychic conflict
- managed by various kinds of blocking-off of activity and awareness
neurotic anxiety
arises when people deny their potentialities, fail to accurately perceive the needs of fellow humans, or remain oblivious to their dependence on the natural world
guilt
the structure that gives meaning to experience and allows people to make decisions about the future
intentionality
intentionality is sometimes conscious
false (unconscious)
both involve care, both necessitate choice, both imply action, and both require responsibility
union of love and will
forms of love
sex
eros
philia
agape
a biological function that can be satisfied through sexual intercourse or some other release of sexual tension
sex
