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Existentialism 2 : self-consciousness

Existentialism 2 : self-consciousness. Conscious awareness always has intentionality The phenomenological approach ‘brackets off’ any independent existence of mental objects. Subject-object dichotomy is wrong Self-consciousness is one (and science two) steps from reality

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Existentialism 2 : self-consciousness

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  1. Existentialism 2 : self-consciousness • Conscious awareness always has intentionality • The phenomenological approach ‘brackets off’ any independent existence of mental objects

  2. Subject-object dichotomy is wrong • Self-consciousness is one (and science two) steps from reality • ‘Dasein’: the fundamental position of the individual

  3. How to live • Be ‘authentic’ • Existential ‘angst’ (anxiety) • ‘Nihilism’ - there is no authority: values and so on must be created by individuals for themselves

  4. ‘Radical freedom’ • Being and nothingness • Nothingness as the ‘subject’ of conscious thought • At root, self-conscious beings are radically free

  5. ‘Hell is other people’ • The battle stemming from individuals exercising their will • The requirement for authenticity; the ‘sin’ of bad faith • Will to being leads to the will to freedom of all (ethics is possible)

  6. The will to power • ‘God is dead’ • The will strives for power – ultimately this is self-mastery • Superman and slave moralities

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