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Existentialism is a very complicated belief which has many different meanings to me. Coming from the word exist, existentialists try to figure out what it means to exist and how one would know that they are existing. They don't really see the meaning to life and sometimes they can believe that they are just existing and they don’t really know what’s true and what they should believe.
They also live very individually and care more about taking care of themselves than taking care of others. They don’t think that social approval is as important as what they think of themselves. Every decision that they make they believe that they must not only follow through with, but deal with the consequences of their actions, because they live in the present.
Overall, existentialism is a very tough topic to discuss but I believe with the help of my general knowledge of the subject and with Mrs. Oclan chipping in here and there, all of my bloggers will come to understand the subject.
Eric Hogenkamp
im intreged(spelling) by your sophisticated views eric and i agree that extelism(spelling)is not the easiest topic to cover because so many of the views in my opinion overlap eachother and ultimately contradict one another. But i do appreciate your attempt at making sense of this idea.
ReplyDeleteEric- What do YOU make of existentialism? You do a nice job going through the information we've discussed so far, but only spend a sentence saying it is tough. Why is it tough?
ReplyDeleteBy the by, existentialist believe you have to find your own meaning. Their worst nightmare is that there is no meaning!
I will continue to chip in!
Ahh Mrs. Oclan a brilliant point. Well, it is tough becuase although we can think of instances in todays society where these ideas are had, it is difficult to think about them without seeing a cerain existentialist group that we can identify the word with and learn about. There are also no famous people or instances that we can relate back to to understand the word.
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