Existentialism

Next Year
  - Kierkegaard on Being Busy as a thematic lesson?
  - http://qz.com/663552/150-years-ago-a-world-famous-philosopher-called-busyness-the-sign-of-an-unhappy-person/

Unit Outline

1. The Search For Meaning
• Notes - Nihilism & Existentialism (PowerPoint)
2. Kierkegaard
• Notes - Kierkegaard (PowerPoint)
• School of Life - FOMO (YouTube)
• Either/Or (Reading)
• "Crop Rotation"
• "Diapsalmata"
• "Equilibrium Between Aesthetic and Ethical"
• Scrubs Season 5 Episode 20 - "My Lunch"
3. Nietszche
• School of Life - Nietzsche (PowerPoint) 
• School of Life - Nietzsche on the Superman (YouTube)
• Nietzsche Assignment (Link)
• Adversity
• Optional: Nerdwriter - Kintsugi - The Art of Embracing Damage (YouTube)
4. Sarte
• School of Life - Sartre (Download) (YouTube)
• Existentialism Is A Humanism (Reading)
5. Camus
• School of Life - Camus (YouTube)
• Notes - Camus (Notes)
• Scrubs Season 5 Episode 20 - "My Last Words"
• Optional: 8-Bit Philosophy on Camus (YouTube)
6. Purpose Project
1. Description (Link)

Vocabulary / Names / Key Ideas

• General Terms
• Nihilism
• The Absurd
• Authenticity
• Kierkegaard
• Regina Olsen
• Either/Or
• A
• B - The Judge
• Stages of Life
• Aesthetic
• Ethical
• Religious
• Accidental vs. Eternal
• Despair
• Different Forms
• Thought Despair
• Dialectic
• Problem of the Ethical
• Knight of Infinite Resignation
• Knight of Faith
• Nietzsche
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra
• "God is Dead" (meaning)
• Master vs. Slave Morality
• Passive Nihilism
• Will To Power
• Eternal Return
• Ubermensch
• Sartre
• Existentialism Is A Humanism
• Freedom / Choice
• Bad Faith
• "Existence Preceeds Essence"
• Being "thrown into the world"
• "The Look"
• Subjectivity
• Universality of Human Condition
• Camus
• The Stranger
• The Plague
• The Myth of Sisyphus
• Problem of Suicide
• The Absurd Hero