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'The Problem of Empty Names', 'Existentialism and Humanism' and 'Unpublished Notebooks 1881-82'
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23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 1. Existentialism
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The goal is to settle human beings, like other animals, but humans are still changeable [Nietzsche]
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Existentialists says that cowards and heroes make themselves [Sartre]
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23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 2. Nihilism
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My eternal recurrence is opposed to feeling fragmented and imperfect [Nietzsche]
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23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 5. Existence-Essence
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Existence before essence (or begin with the subjective) [Sartre]
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'Existence precedes essence' means we have no pre-existing self, but create it through existence [Sartre, by Le Poidevin]
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23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 6. Authentic Self
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Existentialism says man is whatever he makes of himself [Sartre]
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It is dishonest to offer passions as an excuse [Sartre]
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23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 7. Existential Action
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When a man must choose between his mother and the Resistance, no theory can help [Sartre, by Fogelin]
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If I do not choose, that is still a choice [Sartre]
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23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 8. Eternal Recurrence
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See our present lives as eternal! Religions see it as fleeting, and aim at some different life [Nietzsche]
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The eternal return of wastefulness is a terrible thought [Nietzsche]
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