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Existentialism (Ideas (Authenticity (We called to live a more focused…

- - - - We are accountable for our lives
      - Everywhere we turn we are confronted by our freedom
    - - Is our responsibility
      - No access to the objective
      - Shaped by our categories of thought
        
        Which is our choice
        
        Unlike the automatic perception of Kant
        
        We choose to interpret it different ways
        
        Shaped by our concrete experience within the world
        
        Unlike Kant who though it was the transcendental ego/mental activity that allows us to interpret the world
        
        Our context
        
        Husserl
        
        Our experience is not in perceiving the object, but part of our subjective way of viewing the world
        
        Infinite amount of ways for me to respond to a situation
      - Nietzsche - multiply our perspective
        
        View the world in many different ways
        
        We can have many different perspectives
      - I apprehend facts
        
        Not as they are
        
        But interpret them as I choose to
        
        True fact is inapprehensible
        
        I only encounter my responsibility
  - - - We want to fit in
      - Quick to label those who don't
      - Herd turns us into conformists
      - We lose all of our creativity etc.
      - Anonymous
        
        Anyone can come in and fill our role
    - - Through a non-cognitive process
      - Such as despair, anxiety, anguish, madness, profound emotion
      - We must go with this and discover that we are responsible for our existence.
      - Discover nihilism
        
        Move beyond
        
        Can play naively with what the world is, what is good, what is holy
    - - Being ourselves through our choice
      - Understanding our place in expistence
      - Getting past the profound emotion
    - - Away from the ordinary normal existence
      - No ethical backing
      - Integrate our feelings, desires, beliefs into unified whole
      - Coherence and integrity to ones life
        
        The self as a work of art
      - Understanding the death of god and the absolute
        
        We confront our responsibility for ourselves
      - Discovering our place in the social world
        
        Understanding our place in a more authentic community
        
        The authentic self leads to authentic shared world
  - - - Each person free to make themselves away from the collective
    - - It is other. Opposing the individual quest for freedom.
        It is against the individual, and the individual must struggle against it in search of authenticity
      - Impersonal and dehumanising
      - Has a life of its own, but not a human life.
    - - No absolute in Western society
        
        Christianity, Buddism, Humanism etc.
        
        Leads to nihilism
        
        No replacement for absolutes
        
        No clear way to act
        
        Transient, human constructs #
      - No underlying grounds to legitimate our existence
      - We are abandoned, forlorn, thrown into the world
      - Some of us cling to society
      - But we are alone and must find our own meaning
  - - - Transcendence
        
        We can step back
        
        Care for what kind of being they are
        
        Beyond their fact of being
        
        Striving
        
        Second order desires
        
        Lack, emptiness
        
        Striving to be filled
        
        Driven to complete ourselves
        
        Heal the rift
        
        Futural beings
        
        Our being is in question
    - - We first exist
      - Then we make what we are, essence
      - We are what we do
      - Pure presence is impossible
        
        We are informed by the past, so not detached
        
        Future-directed beings, so not detached
  - - - We can not achieve a God's eye view
      - We are in the world. Behind our own walls
      - No Objectivity
        
        No platonic view #
      - Phenomonology
      - Facticity
      - We can not detach ourselves from the lived experience
    - - We are not distinct from the objects
      - Inseparable from our tools, settings
    - - Distorting lens by taking dispassionate view
      - Mechanistic world could be a meaningless world
      - Spectator view bleaches meaning
        Hides massive aspect of existence
        
        High-level abstractions with no real relevance to our human existence
      - Science is an objectifying approach
        Narrow and misleading
        
        Subjective view is more important in some cases
        
        Reality is not just objective
    - - With individuals
      - Searching for meaning and purpose
      - Meanings are derived from our public practices
      - We discover ourselves/reality in the "they-self" public world
        
        Our individual nature comes as we divide ourselves against it
  - - - Authentic individual might be a Nazi
      - Though, Authenticity requires
        
        Responsibility
        
        Clear sightedness
        
        No hiding behind roles