I just finished taking an existentialism class in school and i think it's bloody genius, some questions though...
Some internal problems with existentialism that i see are as follows. For one thing, one wonders why we should even care if we are in the condition existentialists say we are. Why care about being authentic, about operating in good faith, as we create our own existence? Why bother about... bothering at all? Why not just eat, drink and be merry? Regarding standards of value, how can one avoid the notion that there are some values that everyone should accept, universal standards of good and evil, beauty and ugliness? We can't help believing some things are worth preserving while others are unworthy of our efforts. Is this due to our societal conditioning from which there's no return, or is existentialsm plain wrong?
2006-11-17
03:38:47
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