The Sickness Onto Death And Sartre - 1539 Words

Both Kierkegaard, in â€Å"The Sickness onto Death† and Sartre in â€Å"Being and Nothingness† present each existentialist’s view on the contemporary modes of inauthentic living that have been brought about by modernization. Kierkegaard’s explanation of inauthentic living stems from the notion of Kierkegaardian Despair, which he ties into his idea of â€Å"That Individual†. Not quite similarly, Sartre, through select chapters in â€Å"Being and Nothingness† conveys his perspective of contemporary inauthentic living through an idea he calls â€Å"Bad Faith†. Both Kierkegaardian Despair and Sartrean Bad Faith involve human suffering not at a psychological or physical level, but rather an existential level. I strongly believe that the individuals suffer more from Despair than Bad Faith, as there are aspects of nothingness and anguish of Bad Faith that intensify the suffering. â€Å"The Sickness onto Death† by Kierkegaard encompasses the notion of inauthentic living. Kierkegaard defines Despair as â€Å"the disrelationship in a relation which relates itself to itself â€Å" (Hackett, 80). It is, in other words, failing to or refusing to take on the challenge of trying to become, as Kierkegaard calls it, â€Å"That Individual†. Also, by doing so, we are failing to achieve authentic living in its simplest form. To understand how human beings suffer from Kierkegaardian Despair, we must understand what it is that causes that existential pain that comes from having an unfillable void in one’s existence. Kierkegaard assertsShow MoreRelatedA Connection Between Existence And Absence2238 Words   |  9 PagesHamm asks Clov if he has ever been happy. Clov replies â€Å"Not to my knowledge† which is extremely illogical. â€Å"When one discovers the self, one discovers freedom: for the self is freedom [†¦] For a man to be unconscious of himself as self is the sickness unto death† (Gravil, 65). Anyone should be aware of his emotions and that should the basis of our existence. â€Å"Man, say existentialism, is the being who can transcend himself [†¦] He is capable of various authentic and inauthentic modes of relations toRead MoreEssay on A Philosophy of the Impersonal5155 Words   |  21 Pagesquestions precisely on this point: at no time more than today do human rights, beginning with the right to live, seem so utterly denied. No right more so than the right to live seems contradicted by the millions of victims who die because of hunger, sickness, and war. How is this possible? Whats the origin of this drift in meaning of person that is taking place today when the normative reference to the value of the person is being affirmed in all languages and its flag raised high? One could respondRead MoreFeminist Approach to Witchcraft; Case Study: Millers the Crucible6554 Words   |  27 PagesThe Crucible, in an effort to deconstruct the phallologocentric sanctions implicit in Millers account of Abigails fate, Elizabeths confession, and Johns temptatio n and death.] Arthur Millers The Crucible is a disturbing work, not only because of the obvious moral dilemma that is irresolutely solved by John Proctors death, but also because of the treatment that Abigail and Elizabeth receive at Millers hands and at the hands of critics. In forty years of criticism very little has been said aboutRead MoreMetz Film Language a Semiotics of the Cinema PDF100902 Words   |  316 Pagesthe reader of Victor Hugo s Waterloo. (A. J. Greimas would say that the man with the radio is actually two actors: the demonstrating actor and the listening actor). We are approaching a concept that has been developed frequently since Jean-Paul Sartre made his studies of the world of the imagination: Reality does not tell stories, but memory, because it is an account, is entirely imaginative. Thus, an event must in some way have ended before its narration can begin. One might add that, in the case