Existentialism

Existentialism

1. Uniqueness and freedom

2. No God, no morals

3. Behaving unauthentically = bad faith

4. Kiekegaard

   • Father of existentialism
   • If you follow your telos you loose individuality
   • Subjectivity is the truth
   • The crowd is untruth

5. de Beauvoir

   • Woman is the other
   • Woman are seen as objects
   • "The second sex"
   • The intervention of someone else can establish an individual as other

6. Jean Paul Sartre

   • Existence precedes essence
   • No preconceived definition for anybody
   • Man exists, encounters himself, surges and then defines itself.
   • We can be whatever we want
   • If we let someone influence us we are practicing bad faith