Core Texts 102

What did Nietzche believe we should always start with a false consciousness?

Our first interpretations are wrong and we must break the status quo before we can rebuild more noble beliefs

What does Nietzche believe is the primary problem with western culture?

It is nihilistic and has only revealed the nothingness of these thought systems

What was Nietzche’s primary critique in “The Mad Man'“

The modernism (boquise Prussian society) wanted to live like there is no God but won’t accept that there must have been a God at some point, meaning they must accept the responsibility themselves.

What are characteristics of the herd?

-We don’t think for ourselves

-We don’t take responsibility for ourselves

We are easily swayed by others

-The herd will always prepare a way for another weak, victim, naracassist to become the leader

Who does Nietzsche blame the decadent of western culture and why?

Plato - philosophical nihilism

-eternal realms of ideas

-life is a disease and death is being healed from it

St. Paul - religous nihilism

-to live is Christ, to die is gain

-we live in a world of sin

What are the three wounds to humanity according to Freud?

1. Copernican

2. Darwinian

3. Fruedian

What is the Copernican wound?

Geocentrisms

• everything revolves around us

Heliocentric

• we have been cosmologically removed from a place of honor

What is the Darwinian wound?

Humans go through the same biological process as all other creatures on earth

What is the Freudian wound?

We don’t truly know ourselves as well as we think we do

We rarely know what’s wrong

What is the idea of determination?

We dont have freedom in our subconsiouness, which leads to dream and Fruedian slips

What are the three defense mechanisms?

1. Denial

2. Projection

3. Rationalisation

What are Kierkegaard’s 3 Stages of the Self?

1. Aesthetic

2. Ethical

3. Religious

Define Aesthetic

• pure individuality “I”

• avoids boredom

• an individualistic desire to know and understand one’s desire

Define Ethical

• “we”, community

• represented by marriage and the law

• discovery of eternity: marraige commitment

• transpersonal critera for behavior: the law

Define Religious?

• can only be true self before God

• A

  • belief in God

• B

  • commitment to the Christian God

• C

  • Works of the Law

  • Brings back the “we”

What is the question of the absurd according to Camus?

That which cannot be brought to logic or that which is not of nature or the universe

What is the number one question of philosophy?

Should we commit sucicide?

What is sucicude?

any form of escape from the absurdity of the problem?

What is philosophical sucide?

building intense structures of thoughts that create another reality

What is religous sucide?

Focusing on the next world

Why do we read poetry according to T.S. Elliot?

It makes us feel heard and understood

We may not always be searching for the answer , but we want to know if others are looking for the same questions

What did Stephans focus on?

the centrality of imagination

What is the flux of existence according to Caput

human existence is always changing/ incomplete

What is mystery?

That which cannot be decisively known