Specific Objectives
Lead the student to understand the world views generated by Existentialism which although placing the human being in the bodily dimension of existence, gave rise to materialism, nihilism and hence consumerism.
Summarize the main thought of the existentialist thinkers mentioned in the program. (STS)
An overview of the following thinkers and philosophers’ theories:
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860)
Soren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855)
Edmund G. A. Husserl (1859 – 1938)
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900)
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)
Jean Paul Sartre (1905 – 1980)
Existentialism affirms that man is a finite reality that exists and acts in his own risk. It recognizes the importance and the influence that man gives to the external, the material, the “worldliness” in general, where the conditions of human reality that are understood in these terms: needs, use and production of the things.
