Chapter 16: Soren Kierkegaard’s Repetition Brief Biography * Soren Kierkegaard was born on May 15‚ 1813 in Copenhagen‚ Denmark. * 7th child of a wealthy businessman. * His father had special philosophical interests which had great impact on him * He was also a bright student who learned to read Hebrew‚ Greek‚Latin‚German and French at the age of 17. * His philosophy‚ which he called existentialism‚ practically applied to an examined life as opposed to the works of Georg Wilhelm
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Martin Heidegger regards language to be the ultimate reality‚ and holds poetry to be the highest and most authentic form. Language became a quasi-divinity‚ the ultimate reality or medium which explains the world to us. Heidegger takes this idea further to say all art is essentially poetry. He furthermore states the work of art‚ or in this case the painting is as dependent upon the painter as the painter is dependent upon the painting. This brings us to conclude that the origin of the work of art
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not free to refrain from choosing. Wouldn’t that then be choosing not to choose? Kirkegaard believed Authenticity was to choose and live by faith in God and nothing else. Heidegger said “stop being absorbed by your doings and retain an attitude that‚ things may mean something else than I expected.” I somewhat agree with Heidegger and his understanding. But I have to give my full support to Levinas‚ whose knowledge of Authenticity was to live by responding to the other as prior to
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CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY When beginning the study of philosophy it is hard to believe that there are so many components involved with one subject. But in reality philosophy is really a broad term for many subtopics; as is the case when discussing continental philosophy‚ which is the philosophical tradition of continental Europe including phenomenology and existentialism. It all began with Absolute Idealism supported by such philosophers as Fichte and Hegel. It was during the eighteenth and nineteenth
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existentialist and played a key role in 20th century French philosophy and Marxism. Existentialism was formally introduced in the works of philosophers like Soren Kierkegaard‚ Friedrich Nietzsche‚ Edmund Husserl‚ and Martin Heidegger and can be traced to the late nineteenth / early twentieth century writers like Fyodor Dostoevsky and Franz Kafka. Though existentialism as a movement became popular in the mid-twentieth century through the works
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SEMINARY _______________________ The Later Heidegger: Technology _______________________ Summary _______________________ Submitted to: F. Pablito M. Tagura‚ SVD Professor in Philosophy of Technology _______________________ Submitted by: Sem. Edgardo T. Del Rosario Jr. Fourth Year-SVD _______________________ August 8‚ 2013 DIVINE WORD MISSION SEMINARY “The Question of Technology” Summary The Third Chapter of Later Heidegger is concern about what we called Technology
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of Being and Time‚ Heidegger describes the project in the following way: Our aim in the following treatise is to work out the question of the sense of being and to do so concretely. Heidegger claims that traditional ontology has prejudicially overlooked this question‚ dismissing it as overly general‚ indefinable‚ or obvious. Instead Heidegger proposes to understand being itself‚ as distinguished from any specific entities.”Being” is not something like a being."Being‚ Heidegger claims‚ is "what determines
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Jean Paul Sartre Sartre’s Life Jean-Paul Charles-Aymard Sartre was born on June 21‚ 1905‚ in Paris‚ France. His father‚ Jean-Baptiste Sartre‚ was an officer in the French Navy. His mother‚ Anne-Marie Schweitzer‚ was the cousin of Nobel Prize laureate Dr. Albert Schweitzer. Sartre was one year old when his father died. He was raised in Meudon‚ at the home of his tough grandfather Charles Schweitzer‚ a high school professor. His early education included music‚ mathematic‚ and classical literature
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A PHENOMENOLOGY OF LANDSCAPE: PLACES‚ PATHS AND MONUMENTS By Christopher Tilley Landscape has long been central to archaeology as the context within which sites and monuments are preserved‚ and as a long-lived dynamic entity deserving explanation. Intellectual tussles over the interpretation of ancient landscapes have seen the pendulum of endeavour swing back and forth between Romanticist and Enlightenment traditions but always driving thinking forward in what Andrew Sherratt characterised as the
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sometimes referred to as Anglo-American philosophy. During the 20th century continental philosophy embraced schools of thought such as phenomenology and existentialism. The major influences that this type of philosophy had were thinkers such as Martin Heidegger‚ Jean-Paul Sartre‚ Maurice Merleau-Ponty‚ Michael Foucault‚ and Jacques Derrida. (Continental philosophy‚ Britannica) Structuralism is defined as a method of analyzing phenomena mainly characterized by contrasting the elemental structures of
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