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Full Idea
Some moods, such as 'anxiety' (Heidegger), 'nausea' (Sartre), 'guilt' (Kierkegaard), and 'absurdity' (Camus) are important because they have the capacity to shake us out of complacency and self-deception, disclosing our freedom and finitude.
Gist of Idea
Anxiety, nausea, guilt and absurdity shake us up, revealing our freedom and limits
Source
Kevin Aho (Existentialism: an introduction [2014], Pref 'What?)
Book Ref
Aho,Kevin: 'Existentialism: an introduction' [Polity 2014], p.-7
A Reaction
[bit compressed] Problem: if I fail to feel such things, and deliberately induce them in myself, am I being inauthentic? Making a huge and unnatural effort to be an existentialist seems all wrong. And who wants the permanent grip of such feelings?
20734 | Anxiety, nausea, guilt and absurdity shake us up, revealing our freedom and limits [Aho] |
20733 | Our 'existence' is how we create ourselves, unconstrained by any prior 'essence' [Aho] |
20736 | Science has to abstract out the subjective attributes of things, focusing on what is objective [Aho] |
20738 | Social contracts and markets have made society seem disconnected and artificial [Aho] |
20737 | Protestantism brought the modern emphasis on inner states of the soul [Aho] |
20744 | Phenomenologists say all experience is about something and is directed [Aho] |
20753 | The self is constituted by its choices made within a social context [Aho] |
20766 | Four Noble Truths: life is suffering, caused by attachment, it is avoidable, there is a path [Aho] |