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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 1
05/07/2011

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Essence/Existence
Definition
What it is vs. that it is
Sartre: Existence precedes essence. This is what differentiates humans from animals.
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Hegel
Definition
God is absolute spirit
People must surrender the particular for the universal to act ethically
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Spontaneity
Definition
The human being's ability to create the genuinely new/human creativity.
One of the last things to be destroyed by authoritarian states
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Teleological Suspension of the Ethical
Definition
The problem that we cannot predict ends ultimately means that we cannot act ethically, but god allows us to transcend this, as he is the ultimate telos.
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Slave morality
Definition
Nietzsche's idea of valorizing weakness.
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Present-at-hand/Ready-at-hand
Definition
Heidegger makes the distinction between things we know in the abstract or theoretical way and things we know in their involvement in the world, through understanding or interpreting. Example of the hammer.
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Eternal Thou
Definition
Essentially Buber's way of knowing God. Rather than experiencing Him, we engage with something or someone else. We encounter Him when encountering normal things genuinely.
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Ressentiment
Definition
Nietzschean. Source of the slave morality is slave's ressentiment, or resentment.
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Thrownness/facticity
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we are born into conditions and therefore, Dasein is as a fact; our facticity frames what we can know. Therefore, we can only be free through choices.
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Wantanabe
Definition
Protagonist of Ikiru; first frees death and then confronts it authentically, trying to solve problems before dying.
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Hermeneutical Circle
Definition
We cannot escape our way of understanding, so we have to be aware of the ways in which it constitutes and limits us.
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Affliction
Definition
De-creation
Weil
renders one alone, abandoned, facing the abyss, existential crisis
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Moral Ameliorism
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idea of human progression, rejected by Arendt, etc
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Absurdity
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Camus
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Perspectivism
Definition
Nietzsche: all philosophical views are established from different perspectives.
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Anxiety/Distress/Paradox
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Kgaard: anxiety/angst, paradox of Abraham
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Logotherapy
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The Second Sex
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Dasein
Definition
The idea of consciousness as posited by heidegger: there-being.
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