Existentialism Existentialism is philosophical movement emphasizing on freedom, individual existence and choice that influenced many writers in the 19th and 20th centuries. ... • Existence precedes essence- You have to exist to have essence, man exist and in that existence man defines himself and the world in his own subjectivity • Human beings lack a fixed nature- each human being makes choices that create his or her nature. ... • Absurdity- We arrive from nothingness thus we have no purpose, therefore it is absurd to search for meaning in the midst of vast nothingnes...

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Final Examination 1. Heraclitus makes the statement that "you can't step into the same river twice." This comes from the idea that the river is flowing and ever changing. With its constant flow, by the time you put your foot in take it out and put it back in again, the water you first touched will already be traveling down the river. For Heraclitus, reality is just like this changing flowing river. ...

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In The Myth of Sisyphus Camus focused on the abstract individuals struggle to live life in recognition of the absurd, his theory is evolved in The Plague to focus on a communities struggle with the absurd and the solidarity found in the relationships and emotions between the people. Camus existen...

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For a while now I've been going through a long thought process wondering not "What is man? " but "What am I?- and where I belong in the garden maze known as life. My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocritical, and skeptical. I believe that human life is valued less than it should be, that it does have a meaning. ...

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