It seems that Sartre understood value as what the for-itself does in the face of lack. (strictly instrumental) In other words, human beings desire what they...
It seems to me that characteristic of existentialism is the denial of one all-purpose explaination for everything. History is filled with examples of thinkers...
Thanks Joe for the reply! I must admit that I am a mere neophyte in the discipline of philosophy and thus I find it so endlessly fascinating. One concept...
Hi all! I am a new member to the group. Currently, I am a college senior, albiet non-traditional because I have two teenage daughters! My major in college is...
The difficulty with communism is exactly the same difficulty as that of capitalism, and ultimately that of simple democracy, though perhaps less so in the...
The Thought Collective Craves You. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thethoughtcollective/ No matter who our biological parents are we are the children of thought...
... proclaimed that man's greatest fear was derived from his mistrust of other human beings, of being perceived as an object rather than a complete being.<<< ...
I have made repeated efforts to unsubscribe to this list. I have done as requested below and sent an unsubscribe message. I have no doubt that if I make...
JANUS HEAD 5.1 SPRING 2002 KNOWING SUBJECTS: HUMAN LIVES, HUMAN WORLDS Selected essays from The George Washington University's 7th Annual Conference in the...
Dear Elaine, Tommy and Sartre group this is in response to Elaine's second assignment on Jung dated may 20, 2002. this response assumes you are familiar with...
I want to say as a preface, forgive me for writing this, but please consider it as a trial expression or spring board for discussion and nothing more. This...
Here is an arguement to be thrown out there, I thought of it around the time I read the gentleman's earlier message who was questioning whether toughts exist...
Dear Tommy, Elaine and Sartre group Being able to grasp and use Sartre in Being in the world and Being in nothingness requires a certain general use of Jung....
Watched a videoed interview with the renowned Psychiatrist R.D. Laing yesterday. He spoke of a Jewish family, Mother, Father and Daughter, as only child. The...
... that it also deals with the mind. Sartre's once placed an emphasis upon Existential Psychoanalysis. ... much of a social science, much less a natural one;...
This is who i will be studying in my first Honours unit. http://www.fusionanomaly.net/rdlaing.html Now this promises to be wonderful ;)))) Love & Hugs Elaine ...
I think that means the study of the "spectacular" from a decidedly religious context. The "numenous or numen" being opposed to the common and mundane. But I...
My tendency is to clarify. I do this mainly for myself. I've always been slightly uneasy over the fact that single words not only have various shades of...
From a metaphysical standpoint, Jung's Self is defined in relation to the ancient myth of traditional Zoroastrian teaching, the Self as a three-dimensional...
Between "myself" and the "given", the "there" plenum, there is a nothingness into which my actions are inserted. My intentions reveal and uncover Being in a...
Subj: [Sartre] A New Thinking Emerges About Consciousness ... "observer"; in the head, a higher function, separate from the workings of the physical brain.<<< ...
Dear John, U wrote :- However, because Sartre explained that 'value' is inclusive of even 'lack' values, meaning to feel a lack of value which one is not...
Listened to an old interview with Ayn Rand the other day...While I've never had much use for her stuff and remain somewhat purposefully ignorant about it, I...
I, as an existential being, felt the universe itself as God's uncreation, the almighty abortion which re-creates itself in God's own image. So whether some ...
I have been reading the various post as they run to and fro on an assortment of subjects; including Jung, Hindism, etc., and Elaines observation that...
Hi Daniel: You're finds are pretty good. Reading the list of definitions, I was struck by the following: "14. ABANDONMENT. "I am abandoned in the world... in...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42772-2002May19.html A New Thinking Emerges About Consciousness Descartes Notwithstanding, Some Neuroscientists...
