Lucy BrooksPhenomenology and Existentialism Log Book — Week 7: Is Sartre’s Notion of Bad Faith Paradoxical?Sartre’s notion of ‘bad faith’[1] (mauvaise foi) is what he describes as a ‘lie to oneself’[2]; a form of self-deception. Sartre is not…Nov 17, 2017Nov 17, 2017
Lucy BrooksPhenomenology and Existentialism Log Book — Week 6: What are the Moral Implications of Sartre’s…Sartre’s notion of ‘bad faith’[1] is generally considered as a negative way to live one’s life; one who is in bad faith is ‘lying to…Nov 8, 2017Nov 8, 2017
Lucy BrooksPhenomenology and Existentialism Log Book — Week 5: Does Heidegger’s notion of death conclude his…A Heideggerian notion of death is one that is particular to Dasein as ‘one’s ownmost, nonrelational and insuperable possibility’[1]. Here…Nov 1, 2017Nov 1, 2017
Lucy BrooksPhenomenology and Existentialism Log Book — Week 4: How can Dasein be both in the truth and in the…To understand how it is possible for Dasein to be both in the truth and in the untruth, I must first start from the beginning of…Oct 20, 2017Oct 20, 2017
Lucy BrooksPhenomenology and Existentialism Log Book Entry — Week 3: If we accept Heidegger’s fundamental…Heidegger responds to and challenges the idea that there is an “external world” of objects and events, which exists independently from the…Oct 14, 2017Oct 14, 2017
Lucy BrooksPhenomenology and Existentialism Log Book Entry — Week 2: Can we attempt to solve the…Adopting the reflective attitude in the place of the natural attitude is necessary if we wish to discover how knowledge acquisition is…Oct 8, 2017Oct 8, 2017
Lucy BrooksPhenomenology and Existentialism Log Book Entry — Week 1: Describe How You Experience an Object.In this initial log book entry I will discuss how I experience objects whilst relating my personal experience to the ideas of Husserl (in…Sep 29, 2017Sep 29, 2017