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EXISTENTIALISM

EXISTENTIALISM. A philosophical theory or approach which emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of will. EXISTENCE PRECEDES ESSENCE: Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980).

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EXISTENTIALISM

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  1. EXISTENTIALISM

  2. A philosophical theory or approach which emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of will.

  3. EXISTENCE PRECEDES ESSENCE: Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) • A person is born a blank slate, and humanity has no predetermined values or morals common to all mankind. • A person must form his or her own conceptions of existence by asserting control over his or her own actions and choice. • A human being gains his or her essence through their individual actions and choice, and it is only through the process of living that one defines oneself.

  4. EXISTENTIAL THEMES • FREEDOM • IDENTIFY AND SELF • GUILT AND INNOCENCE • ALIENATION • ATHEISM

  5. “British ambulance drivers were killed sometimes. Well, I knew I would not be killed. Not in this war. It did not have anything to do with me. It seemed no more dangerous to me myself than war in the movies.” -A Farewell to Arms

  6. “You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got” -A Farewell to Arms

  7. “But life isn’t hard to manage when you’ve nothing to lost” -A Farewell to Arms

  8. “I would like to have had the uniform off although I did not care much about the outward forms. I had taken off the stars, but that was for convenience. It was no point of honor. I was not against them. I was through. I wished them all the luck. There were the good ones, and the brave ones, and the calm ones and the sensible ones, and they deserved it. But it was not my show any more.” -A Farewell to Arms

  9. “But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together. I know that the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that they things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness had started.” -A Farewell to Arms

  10. “And why didn’t you marry?” “I don’t know,” she said. “I was a fool not to. I could have given him that anyways. But I thought it would be bad for him.” -A Farewell to Arms

  11. A Clean, Well-Lighted Place Ernest Hemingway

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