Exestentialist View on Human Condition
Date Submitted: 08/18/2004 18:37:14
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 2 pages (429 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 2 pages (429 words)
Two of the main principles of Existentialist Human Condition are: That man exists and then creates himself and what man chooses for himself he chooses for everyone else as well. Lets examine the first principle: man exists and then defines himself. What it means is that man is created on this earth and is nothing but a body, blood and guts. What he chooses to do and to be is what makes him a man. …
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…the police, the courts, the jails and all the people who are involved with those organizations. So now the question is raised 'what if everyone acted the same way that man did?' Well there could be nothing but anarchy, no laws, or government. Basically we would revert to a type of Neanderthal type state. This is why many classic philosophers have problems with the Existentialist point of view, because of the 'what if' questions.
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