Hello everyone,
My today's blog is Sunday reading task about existentialism. In this task we have to do flipped learning which is very interesting and also little bit hard. In the flipped learning activity teacher give us his blog link of flipped learning and some videos through we have to give answer of questions given by professor Dilip Barad.
This flipped learning task is about what is existentialism and absurd movement this is background of the novel name 'Waiting for Godot' which is part of our paper '20th century literature'.
A) What is flipped learning ?
A flipped classroom is an instructional strategy and a type of blended learning, which aims to increase student engagement and learning by having students complete readings at home and work on live problem-solving during class time. This pedagogical style moves activities, including those that may have traditionally been considered homework, into the classroom. With a flipped classroom, students watch online lectures, collaborate in online discussions, or carry out notes at home, while actively engaging concepts in the classroom, with a mentor's guidance.
B) What is existentialism?
A philosophical theory or approach which emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will.
1) Thoughts which i like the most :-
Video -1 :- :
In video one there is explanation of the what is existentialism and some founder of this movement and we can say philosophy.
John Paul Sartre who found this Idea he is known as existentialist. There are many such philosophers like,
4) Franz Kafka
They all have different belief but they all talked about one philosophy which is Individuality , passion and freedom this three is philosophical triangle.
According to philosopher Camus Believing in God called suicide for him and he denied to be known as existentialist. He believes in individualism and if you took support of God then it's might be you tries to escape from reality and this is called philosophical suicide according to him.
Existentialism is mainly popular among young people because it touches on subjects which a person in his or her youth might be struggling with. There were other subjects like suicide, anguish, absurdity, passions, emotions, death, freedom, disparage.
Thoughts i like the most:-
The idea of philosophical triangle is very good which is also faced by many people in today's time.
Video - 2 :-
In this video Camus give Idea about suicide and reason behind that why people do suicide also give the reason of living life. And also give the answer of the question that ,
Why existentialist did more focuse on suicide :-
For Camus suicide is individual act. Suicide is Divorced between men and his life because when one start feeling that absurdity in his life , there he facing question that this absurdity require him to facing hope or suicide.Every life is full of adversity. therefore death can be the ultimate solution of life and absurdity of life. Many people commit suicide because they feel that their life is not worth living. there we find comparison with movie 'Stay'. it said that " An elegant suicide is the ultimate work of Art." Tramp or stranger are living without any profound purpose so for them Death can be mistress " Death is my Mistress".
Thought I like the most :-
In this video i really influenced by the idea that is there logic to the point of death? Life is a gift for us given by someone. but this is a unexpected gift so we have all rights to end our life but there should be logical reason behind suicide.
Video - 3
In this video Camus talked about where is absurdity , absurdity is neither in men nor in world. Because if there is no human being then there wouldn't be any desire and human nostalgia to fulfill - satisfied.
He also talked about :-
A) A total absence of hope - Despair
B) A Continual rejection - pronounciation
C) Consciou dissatisfaction - Immature unrest
In this video there is "myth of Sisyphus" given by Albert Camus. According to the Greek myth Sisyphus was punished for all eternity to roll a rock up a mountain only to have it roll back down the bottom when he reaches the top. Camus claims that Sisyphus is the ideal absurd hero. his punishment is the representation of human condition. Sisyphus can do such monotonous work because he habituated to such life. sometimes human beings also live same life everyday and find pleasure in it.
Thought i like the most :-
In this video i find it really very interesting that how Myth of Sisyphus represented the human life. We always wake up with sun rise and sleep with sunset this is also one kind of Philosophical suicide.
Video -4 :-
It was 1916 Dada movement developed against World war. It questions established notions and values. In this way it creates new path of living. it finds the way of becoming free from everything. Here there is opportunity for making your own values.there is example of 'R.Mutt'
and it questions that 'is that really art?' 'if it is indeed art what kind of art is it?'.
it questions your knowledge, no matter what the answers. but it will destroy all values you know.
Thought I like the most:-
In this video i really like the Idea of Dadaism in which whatever i want to create i can create i don't need to explain anybody what I created.
Video -5 :-
In this video Existentialism is often accused of being a gloomy Philosophy. While there is The fruth to this claim we must look at the whole picture why existentialism Thought of us a gloomy Philosophy because of this our emotions such as Anxiety, despair and absurdity. And when can stuck between this all they find solutions like , believe in God but try to finding the truth which is true for you , it should you to judge every values and choose your own meaning in life.
Life + Anxiety = ??
In this video i really like the one thing that we are responsible for our own choices in life.
Video -6 :-
In this video we come to know that how Nihilism and existentialism are differ from eachother, Kierkegaard say that existentialist always fought against the Nihilism one or another way and he defined Nihilism as loss of individuality and it's promote the subjectivity while for Nietzsche Nihilism is the highest value.
Thought i like :-
Existentialism believe in subjectivity while Nihilism believe in objectivity meaningless life.
Video -7 :
In this video there is question like :-What Existentialism is not? To understand Existentialism in better way. Existentialism is not a philosophical system nor should it be viewed as a set of doctrines rather it is probable best classified as a philosophical movement as a movement Existentialism arose in 19th century Europe Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche are often characterised the founding fathers of the movement.
In this video the thought i like :
Idea of essence , every independent thing have their own essence , But we are free to chooses our essence.
We have to find the answer of this questions :
1) Why am I here ?
2) What does it mean to be human?
3) How should I live my life ?
If one can find answer of this questions then it's become easy to understand philosophy of life.
Video - 8 :-
Friedrich Nietzsche gave the theory of "Ubermensche" it means man as a superman. He believed that "God is dead". When human beings start in believing that there is no God then they become free of doing anything they want or desire. They no more believe in established rules and regulation but create new rules.
In this video i really like the thought that man can do anything that is Ubermensche. Make your rule to live your life.
2) Video i like the most :-
Video no :-8 :-
I like this video because it gives the idea of "Ubermensche". It means man can do anything he wants. Why we need to behave in certain ways? We can make our rules in our own way. There is example of Superman, two kind of Superman - one who follow the society's rules and another one is make their own rules. if our will power is strong than none can restrict us to achieve our goal. only required thing is the confident in self. that 'I am capable of doing anything'.
3) learning outcomes :-
This universe is very large. We are tiny part of this universe. and it does not get affected by our actions and deeds. it doesn't care for us. Universe will remain as it is weather we do anything for it or not. There is different between what we expect from it and what we find in it.
Either people believe in God or they find life as meaningless. once we find it meaningless then we start thinking that does it mean that 'life is not worth living?'. So some people may committed suicide but we can give our own unique meaning to life rather than committing suicide. And if you don't't find any valid reason to live life then you can do suicide too.
According to existentialism one should live with passions. we are the creator our "own work of Art". we can give variety of colors to our Universe. For example,
It means if our sky is pink then it's totally ok we don't need to change the colour of our sky for the sake of people.
4) My Questions:-
Video no-1
1) What is difference between suicide and philosophical suicide? Because if somebody decide for suicide ofcourse they have valid reason then how it is differ from eachother.
Video no-2
2) Why Camus didn't like to be known as existentialist ?
Video no-4
3) Dadaism and Nihilism both the philosophy about nothingness then how it is different from each other?
Video no-5
4) How could being existentialist called
Being narcissistic philosophy ?
Video -6
5) Can you explaine in deep difference between Nihilism and existentialism?
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Very well explained 👍🏻
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