{"id":266,"date":"2020-08-04T15:41:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T15:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2025\/?page_id=266"},"modified":"2025-12-02T17:15:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:15:31","slug":"november-17","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2025\/unit-4-existentialism\/november-17\/","title":{"rendered":"November 17"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"266\" class=\"elementor elementor-266\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-72b68206 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"72b68206\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2e6a58fd\" data-id=\"2e6a58fd\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7dae737e elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"7dae737e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-medium\"><b>Monday, November 17, 2025<\/b><div>Plenary<span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-secondary )\"><\/span><\/div><\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-30238db9 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"30238db9\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-37083b7c\" data-id=\"37083b7c\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3d982e65 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"3d982e65\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><b>\"To The Things Themselves!\": Phenomenology, Existentialism, and Simone de Beauvoir<\/b><\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-362a1901 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"362a1901\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-78b660\" data-id=\"78b660\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6c8d3f66 elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"6c8d3f66\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-53150763\" data-id=\"53150763\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1ba52f99 elementor-tabs-view-horizontal elementor-widget elementor-widget-tabs\" data-id=\"1ba52f99\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"tabs.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tabs\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tabs-wrapper\" role=\"tablist\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-4631\" class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-desktop-title\" aria-selected=\"true\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-4631\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Goals<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tabs-content-wrapper\" role=\"tablist\" aria-orientation=\"vertical\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"true\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-4631\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Goals<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-4631\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-4631\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"false\"><ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\">\n<li>Understand the difference between phenomenology and existentialism<\/li>\n<li>Identify the basic philosophical principles rejected by existentialism (&#8220;existence precedes essence,&#8221; &#8220;to the things themselves,&#8221; &#8220;the anguish of freedom,&#8221; etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Consider how historical context helps explain the development of existentialism<\/li>\n<li>Understand Beauvoir&#8217;s basic picture of the world as ambiguous<\/li><li>Understand Beauvoir&#8217;s basic picture of human freedom&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-62235429 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"62235429\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-medium\">Today begins our foray into existentialism. This 20th-century, (primarily) Franco-German school of philosophy brings us from China's Warring States period to the eve of Hitler's Third Reich. We'll explore this school's theory of the good life through the work of one of its founders: Simone de Beauvoir. Other members, proto-members, and post-facto members include: Franz Fanon, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Martin Heidegger, Tran Duc Thao, Blaise Pascal, Friedrich Nietzche, and Soren Kierkegaard. <br><br>But in order to get the inception of existentialism in clear view, we have to rewind. Today's class begins by charting a path to existentialism through the tradition of European philosophy: from Plato to the 19th-century school of phenomenology. Phenomenology gives us our slogan for today: \"To the things themselves!\" Developed most famously by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, phenomenology challenges one of the most basic foundations of European philosophy: the distinction between \"what is\" and \"what appears to be.\" From Plato on, European philosophy sought to get under the illusory appearance of reality and develop true, certain knowledge about its abstract, objective, static atoms: about the essence of goodness, of pleasure, of my self, of society. But phenomenology insists that this moves our focus from reality\u2013\u2013which is comprised of particular, concrete, dynamic things that appear before us, are inaccessible beyond those appearances, and unfold through time\u2013\u2013to a make-believe, abstract world of unchanging essences. Instead, we should refocus on reality: on the things themselves, as they appear before me and you right now, right here. Existentialism simply develops when phenomenologists began to turn their focus towards human existence: human beings, too (they argued), cannot be abstracted from their real, particular existences in favor of some essence of \"human nature\" or \"the meaning of human life\". <br><br>So, as we shall see, existentialism begins to challenge the very foundations of this class: that we can identify any point, purpose, fundamental meaning, or essence in human life; that this essence tells us what makes human life (a concept abstracting from the actual lives that you, and you, and you, and I, and all of us live) good or bad; and even that philosophy is the route to true and certain knowledge! Diving into Beauvoir will show us a different view: that philosophy is a way of coming-to-accept the strange, unmanageable, and incomprehensible dimension of human existence; that that existence is not meaningless, but lacks any meaning besides those we create in our actual concrete lives; and that, since meaning is something we create, there is no metric we could use to objectively ascertain if a life is good or bad (meaningful or meaningless). <br><br>From these new foundations, Beauvoir begins to build a theory of good living (as opposed to the good life): as a) something that happens in real, concrete lives rather than \"human life\"; b) an assumption rather than evasion of the inescapable ambiguities that structure our real, concrete lives (ambiguities that, she contends, other theories of the good life attempt to erase); and c) a \"genuine\" freedom. Today, we'll begin to lay this view on the table. <\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-209bf409 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"209bf409\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-60450b0f\" data-id=\"60450b0f\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-899127b elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"899127b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-150248d1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"150248d1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><b>Before Class<\/b><\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-224acc1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"224acc1\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-499dfb1\" data-id=\"499dfb1\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-117487ed elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"117487ed\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3884cdcb\" data-id=\"3884cdcb\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9bbf8de elementor-widget elementor-widget-accordion\" data-id=\"9bbf8de\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"accordion.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-accordion\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-accordion-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-1631\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1631\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-accordion-icon elementor-accordion-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-accordion-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-accordion-icon-opened\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-down\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-accordion-title\" tabindex=\"0\">Watch This<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-1631\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-1631\"><ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\"><li>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YaDvRdLMkHs&amp;t=69s<\/li><li>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ws2Y2cWme8c<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-accordion-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-1632\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1632\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-accordion-icon elementor-accordion-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-accordion-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-accordion-icon-opened\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-down\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-accordion-title\" tabindex=\"0\">Read This<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-1632\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-1632\"><ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\"><li>Read and annotate The Ethics of Ambiguity, Part I.<\/li><li>OPTIONAL (good historical survey): https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/atexistentialist0000bake_v7j6\/page\/n9\/mode\/2up<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-accordion-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-1633\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1633\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-accordion-icon elementor-accordion-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-accordion-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-accordion-icon-opened\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-down\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-accordion-title\" tabindex=\"0\">Do This<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-1633\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-1633\"><div>Questions to Think About<\/div><ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\"><li>How does &#8220;existence precedes essence&#8221; challenge views from Stoicism, Platonism, Confucianism, and Daoism?\u00a0<\/li><li>How does Beauvoir&#8217;s notion of freedom align with your everyday notion? How is it different?<\/li><li>\u00a0Why is Beauvoir&#8217;s hypothetical critic so worried about her notion of freedom? HINT: this has something to do with the &#8220;anguish&#8221; of freedom and the question of self-motivation. How does she respond?\u00a0<\/li><li>What exactly are the ambiguities Beauvoir describes as structuring human existence? How might the other philosophers we&#8217;ve read try to resolve or dissolve them?<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-56ec9fb2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"56ec9fb2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5c642ba2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"5c642ba2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><b>After Class<\/b><\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2cdd8bf0 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2cdd8bf0\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-400b56c1\" data-id=\"400b56c1\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3c65fe35 elementor-tabs-view-horizontal elementor-widget elementor-widget-tabs\" data-id=\"3c65fe35\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" 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