Like anywhere you speak...it is always better to get their attentiong maybe knowing their narrow mindness can somehow be used to your advantage. But attacking...
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David Kovar
jrodrigez2001
Nov 16, 2001 5:31 am
It is very difficult to try to explain existentialist very easily...But it is not just the idea that we are free...Kiergaard (excuse my spelling) once said...
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Tommy Beavitt
tbeavitt
Nov 16, 2001 12:06 pm
... These are good questions, Hélène, and I concur largely with David Kovar's reply. You should get lots of help with questions like this! Especially I agree...
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Steve Christensen
soitgos2001
Nov 16, 2001 12:50 pm
Another important point about Sartre is the idea that freedom brings responsibility. If we are indeed free to choose and our choice is all that we have, then...
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Steve Christensen
soitgos2001
Nov 16, 2001 1:15 pm
It occurs to me that in my previous post I failed to make a very important link. What is it, exactly, that gives us this freedom and responsibility? Of course,...
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Christopher Bobo
cbobo01
Nov 16, 2001 4:16 pm
... Cindy, where are you--a Taliban training camp? I admire you decision to chose something difficult--that's the way to learn something new. ... From: Lady...
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Cohen Gavreelah
gavreelah_ne...
Nov 16, 2001 7:37 pm
thank you everyone for all of your help, my prof believes in the students "rising up to the material not dumping down the material for us to understand it"...
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Cohen Gavreelah
gavreelah_ne...
Nov 16, 2001 10:31 pm
I was told today that nothingness and consiousness are common, are similar, how so? I believe that nothingness is a concept of sartre's and consiousness is...
why doesnt Heidegger consider himself an existentialist?...
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Christopher Bobo
cbobo01
Nov 17, 2001 12:32 am
Actually, Heidegger wrote about nothingness also in his essay "What is Metaphysics?" Heidegger also wrote about nothingness in his book An Introduction to...
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dnewdeath@...
Nov 17, 2001 12:58 am
Calling Heideggar an "existentialist," is like saying, 'you look like your son.' Given the chance Heideggar would bitch slap Sartre, uncross his eyes...to say...
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Christopher Bobo
cbobo01
Nov 17, 2001 1:13 am
One could view the term "existentialism" as merely denoting any ideology or philosophy that stresses the importance of existence. I see "existentialism" as a...
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Cohen Gavreelah
gavreelah_ne...
Nov 17, 2001 1:42 am
sorry it wasn't my intention to offend anyone I am merely trying to understand... Helene Christopher Bobo <cbobo@...> a écrit : One could view the term...
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dnewdeath@...
Nov 17, 2001 2:07 am
Perhaps I came off wrong mate. Sorry. I will try to "reinvent"; my response. Respectfully: NewDeath (Registered Trade Mark 1994) Daniel Rocco- <A...
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Cohen Gavreelah
gavreelah_ne...
Nov 17, 2001 3:10 am
no no I see now what happend it had nothing to do with me..lol so we'll save my appology for another time....take care I'm gonna go try and write some of my...
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Christopher Bobo
cbobo01
Nov 17, 2001 3:33 am
I neither think your comment was generally offensive nor did it offend me personally. I was simply commenting that there many different kinds of existentialism...
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dnewdeath@...
Nov 17, 2001 3:55 am
A tree, dog, rock...they all exist. Existentialism stresses the importance of individual human dignity...based on being. I would rather be, than exist like the...
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jngenet@...
Nov 17, 2001 4:03 am
I do wonder if Kierkegaard chose, as clearly as it might seem, the 'leap of faith.' Depending on what one reads, Kierkegaard claims to not have the courage...
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dnewdeath@...
Nov 17, 2001 4:58 am
I honestly believe that Sartre never truely let his work take him over. NewDeath (Registered Trade Mark 1994) Daniel Rocco- <A...
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dnewdeath@...
Nov 17, 2001 5:01 am
"There are many kinds of existentialism...that's what I mean when I say that the word has lost it's meaning. I don't really care about Sartre's physical ...
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dnewdeath@...
Nov 17, 2001 5:01 am
NewDeath (Registered Trade Mark 1994) Daniel Rocco- <A...
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Brent Dean Robbins
janushead.geo
Nov 17, 2001 5:34 am
JANUS HEAD Volume 4, Issue 2 Fall 2001 http://www.janushead.org Editorial: "The Questioning Call" http://www.janushead.org/4-2/edit.cfm ESSAYS "Husserl and...
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Lady Cindy
deftones0070
Nov 17, 2001 6:37 am
i am in the middle of a lil rich stuck up town in new jersey. i just find some pople to be just close minded... i admire those who are open to other ideas and...
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Christopher Bobo
cbobo01
Nov 17, 2001 7:07 am
Maybe the word never had the meaning you ascribe to it. I'm sorry that you do not care about Sartre's physical handicap, and I'm not sure what you're point...
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Christopher Bobo
cbobo01
Nov 17, 2001 7:10 am
You may be right in claiming that Sartre was "less than purely atheistic", but you would have to defend that claim in light of Sartre's unequivocal claims that...
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Christopher Bobo
cbobo01
Nov 17, 2001 7:22 am
Yes, and Sartre talked about being-in-itself (the tree, dog, rock, keyboard, etc) in his philosoophy. Human existence is distingusihed from such "de trop"...
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Steve Christensen
soitgos2001
Nov 17, 2001 12:19 pm
Mr. Rocco: I would very much like further explanation about the thoughts reprinted below. Are these your thoughts, or those of someone you are offering in ...
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thomas roads
dyerseve64@...
Nov 17, 2001 3:02 pm
I once was told by a college professor that an "existentalist" believed he had no choices and did everything from compulsion. king david come and hear, all who...
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dnewdeath@...
Nov 17, 2001 3:19 pm
I am sorry you are so hung up on Sartre's handicap...by the way he no longer has the handicap...he's dead. Your continued harping on a silly issue is in bad...
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dnewdeath@...
Nov 17, 2001 3:19 pm
..................re-read the post. No one "made fun" of Sartre's handicap. NewDeath (Registered Trade Mark 1994) Daniel Rocco- <A...
