Hello Folks! I want you to become well-versed on the greatest thinkers of human history (pun intended). Knowing, for example, major philosophers can better assist you along your literary journey.
For extra credit, I suggest you write a one paragraph abstract either on Camus and Sartre or Soren Kierkegaard.
I furthermore suggest that in your research that you begin using "Scholar Google", "Lexus Nexus" and other more collegiate-level metasearch engines.
Happy Hunting,
Mr. Whyte
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Does this extra credit abstract have a specific due date?
Yes. Nightly.
Soren Kierkegaard influences many people with his philosophical teachings from the 19th century, especially through his investigations of human feelings when faced with life choices. He deals with many religious topics such as faith in God, but he believes that individuals construct the essence of their own lives instead of deities. As one of the creators of existentialism, Kierkegaard believes in the idea of “the leap of faith” where people make irrational decisions based on trust. He states that to have faith one must have doubt, for people must be able to make rational decisions in order to truly believe in something. Kierkegaard demonstrates the importance of the individual through his works, for he states that individuals may believe in the same thing but only one will have the knowledge to act upon it. Due to his bold ideas, Kierkegaard wrote under pseudonyms in order for his works to not be treated as philosophical systems. He kept journals to retain his musings and thoughts, which reveal different aspects of his ideas. Even though his works are very poetic and beautiful, they were banned in Denmark due to his philosophy on religion. Kierkegaard’s philosophy on life influences many writers today and his impact is significant.
Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish profound and prolific philosopher. Much of his work dealt with religious themes such as analyzing and revitalizing Christian faith. Much of his worked crosses the boundaries of philosophy, theology, psychology, literature, and fiction, helping contributed to the development of modernism. Also many scholars interpret him as an existentialist and humanist. His work also influenced other philosophers like Albert Camus and Jean- Paul Sartre.
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Jean Paul Sartre was a French existentialist philosopher and playwright of the 20th century that met the modernist writer Albert Camus at Sartre’s play The Flies. Both writers appear to agree that life is full of absurdities. Sartre writes in his book Nausea, "If we are able to refuse the misleading aid of religion or existential philosophies, we then possess certain basic, obvious facts: in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger." These words compare to Camus book The Stranger where Meursault rejects the idea of God and feels that society's beliefs on an after life prevents them from living their lives completely. Meanwhile one key difference between Sartre and Camus is that Sartre absorbed the theories and ideas while Camus captured concrete situations. For example, Sartre explored how humans constitute a meaningful world out of their meaningless existence while Camus focused that absurdity is part of the human experience. Both analyzed absurdity and rejected the notion of God; this brought them to admire each others work as they agreed most people including other philosophers did not understand these concepts.
Mr. Whyte can you be more discriptive in our essay assingments.
Soren Kierkegaard was a writer in the Danish “golden age.” His books talked about more than just theology, literary criticism, philosophy, psychology, devotional literature and fiction. He is known as the “father of existentialism,” because he fought for the increase in power of the Christian Faith. Throughout his life time, he only traveled five times out of his home town Copenhagen, Denmark. Four of those trips were to Berlin, and the other one was to Sweden. Kierkegaard was a man of a life just in his little town, taking walks, going to the theatre, and talking to people. As he was growing up, he described himself as being a religious poet. His writing were strongly affiliated to the Christian believes and to increase their powers. Kierkegaard also participated in cultural politics, in the turbulent social changes of his time, and church politics. One of the things that stand out of Kierkegaard is his writing. Kierkegaard wrote many works of literature in 42 years.
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