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Existential phenomenology
{ Subject: The individual } Kierkegaard & Nietzsche: The individual and Christianity { Method: The mind/consciousness } Kant: Categories of the understanding
Individual subjectivity
The emphasis of existentialism on the individual is a reaction to religion, specifically Christianity Both Kierkegaard and Nietzsche objected to Christianity, but arrived at different conclusions. Kierkegaard merely sought to critique it, while Nietzsche rejected it altogether
Sren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Individual subjectivity
Contemporary existentialists may thus be divided into two camps (in Sartres classification): 1. The theistic existentialists Karl Jaspers, Martin Buber, Gabriel Marcel 2. The atheistic existentialists Martin Heidegger, Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus
Sren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Existential phenomenology
{ Subject: The individual } Kierkegaard & Nietzsche: The individual and Christianity { Method: The mind/consciousness } Kant: Categories of the understanding
Heideggerian phenomenology: Study of Being and the existential structures of Dasein, i.e. what it means to be human Sartrean existentialism: Shift of focus from existence per se to the freedom entailed by our existence
You see, my dear fellow, if you are a phenomenologist, you can talk about this cocktail and make a philosophy out of it!
Raymond Aron
Heideggerian phenomenology: Study of Being and the existential structures of Dasein, i.e. what it means to be human Sartrean existentialism: Shift of focus from existence per se to the freedom entailed by our existence
Heideggerian phenomenology: Study of Being and the existential structures of Dasein, i.e. what it means to be human
Sartrean existentialism: Shift of focus from existence per se to the freedom entailed by our existence