Existentialism Theory

Existentialism Theory - Flipped Learning

Hello, I am Emisha Ravani, Writing this blog as flipped learning given by Prof. Dilip sir Barad. Here we have to do is, from the given ten videos we shell write the thoughts and questions whivh we have and then about the experince about flipped learning. visit this teacher's blog to get an idea about flipped learning. You can watch all videos here in teacher's blog about existentialism. 

The thoughts I like and some questions :-

Video 1 : “You cannot recover without running across the themes of individualism freedom and emotions every once in a while.” “Believing in God you’ve taken the easy way out”

Question : Human’s emotions are same then why existentialism is mainly popular among young people?

Video 2 : “Suicide is an individual act”- Camus . “There is one truly philosophical problem and that is suicide”

Question : What is absurd reasoning?

Video 3 :  “Reason is useless and there is nothing beyond reason”

Question : “A total absence of hope” and “There is no place for hope”- is there the longing for escapism or suicide?

Video 4 : “Whom do they hate most? Him who breaks up their tables of values, the breaker, the lawbreaker. He, however, is the creator.” – Nietsche

Question : In which way existentialism talks about the values which imposed by others?

Video 5 :   “Become who you are” – Nietsche , “ Being an individual does not mean you are a narcissist”

Video 6 : “The highest values devaluate themselves”

Video 7 : “Our ability to make free choices gives us the chance to sculpt a unique essence for ourselves during the course of our lifetime.”

Video 8 : “Do whatever you want”

Video 9 : “Absurdity – The search for answers in an answerless world”

“The literal meaning of life is whatever you are doing that prevents you from killing yourself.”

 

If you want to check out the list of Existentialists then click here. 

WHAT IS EXISTENTIALISM? - Individualism, Passion and Freedom

Above video i like the most and i would like share an image which i like the most in this video. 

There four feelings impressed me a lot in a way that how optimistically shown the experience of existentialism in own life. There are many aspects which are leading us towards passimism in this theory. Though it is something which is strongly leading us towards positive tone. So, i like the most it.

Existentialism is a philosophical theory which deals with ‘Thinking’. When you think that what is purpose of life then you can get the idea of absurdity of life. Somewhere it talks about ‘Harsh individualism’ likewise, we are choiceless and the concept of thrownness as it consider. It looks at suicide in a individual way. To understand in more ways let’s have a look upon one of Gujrati literary figure

અસ્તિત્વવાદ માણસને એક વ્યક્તિ રૂપે જુએ છે. પતિ-પત્ની બે હોય. પણ હકીકતમાં તો પતિ, એક મનુષ્યવ્યક્તિ. તેમ, પત્ની પણ, એક મનુષ્યવ્યક્તિ. (Suman Shah)

It says that existentialism is looking to human in a way of individualism. It talks about the relationship of husband – wife. And says that wife is an individual persona and husband is an individual persona. Thus we all are individual though we are same.

વિશ્વ વિશ્વ છે. પણ વ્યક્તિમાત્રને થાય છે --હું હું છું. હું ભલે દુનિયામાં છું, પણ મારી પોતાની એક દુનિયા છે. (Suman Shah)

Here it talks about the separateness of world and one. Optimistically we can think about our own world which is within us. "An elegant suicide is the ultimate work of Art" when we start to think that life is meaningless , we drown towards suicide.

In this video : An educated, hard-working average man, who is no different than anyone else, trying to make a living for himself and always trying for the best. He is looking for someone, and his endless search for that person everyday has left him tired and in chaos. He finally begins to question everything.

Learning outcome : During this flipped leaning activity, I found very first thing is that here as a student we do not expect to rely on the teacher. We try to find the answers of our easy questions by our own selves. And this learning become interesting by this aspect of it in the observation as a student. Secondly, I was aware about this theory but too little I was knowing, So when it comes as a task then it seems like an excited to activity in a way to know more about any particular topic (Existentialism). 

Feedback : It is tough theory to understand but by the flip leaning it became easy to me cause these videos have provide us very vast background of this philosophy. So we can connect easily if any developed discussion is going on in the classroom. Thoroughly I enjoyed this learning way.

THANK YOU !