The Pros And Cons Of Existentialism

As A professional counselor the approaches are client center and is used in humanistic therapy. The founder Roger used it to motivate clients in the therapeutic process. Roger used three qualities that a good counselor should consider for clients in sessions. First unconditional positive regard is to meet the client where they are. Second genuineness is to share open honest communication and be vulnerable to the client, so the client can do the same. Thirdly the counselor expresses empathetic understanding, so the client can mirror and reflect their feelings and thoughts in the sessions. Experience is the major factor that make the client become strong, stern and except to life’s challenges. Often decisions are difficult to make in experiences.

Existentialism The concept of existentialism has so many contradicting and difficult to grasp components that it is much easier to put in terms of philosophy at its most fundamental. Synonyms of philosophy include: thinking and reasoning, namely the understanding of nature and existence of a person. Although several versions of existentialism exist, there are no set themes that could possibly encompass them all. This philosophy is valid to an individualistic level, however, it does not hold up to modern society as a whole.

“Life has no meaning … It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.” This is an existentialist quote by Jean-Paul Sartre which helps to explain the beliefs of one who follows this philosophy. Existentialism is a complex philosophy emphasizing the absurdity of reality and the human responsibility to make choices and accept consequences. This philosophy was created during the second world war, when Europe found itself in a crisis of death and destruction. If one follows this philosophy then they believe that they have the power to determine the outcome of their life.

How is that possible? The idea of existentialism is one rather difficult to make plausible. How is one to overlook the differences seen between two individuals? An individual who possesses the trait of generosity is not going to be considered the same as one who is

However, at the end of the day, the choice one person selects is truly their own. Whether or not someone involves themselves in certain activities is up to man. Additionaly, Existentialism is the belief where God did not create us for a purpose. It is up to man to decide our journeys. Similarly, Eve and Trueblood conclude their lives are their own paths and chose their actions for personal reasons.

These movements were a response to war and the unbelievable number of dead that were recorded in the time period between World War I and II. Existentialism was all about the absurdity of life and that life was a queue for death. Existentialists believed in the reality of the present and that anyone could die in the most inhumane manner, with or without hope of god awaiting them in afterlife. It was mostly just about the hope that people had of living another day. There was just death and destruction and the philosophy that became a mind-set that was based around nothingness (Aronson,

We can make our own decisions that can cause other choices to arise as well as consequences due to how almost every choice has a form of consequence that follows. However, some of those options are formed due to another’s actions causing us to not fully be able to make a true decision ourselves without outer life interfering. Existentialism in today’s world still shows occasionally, such as someone choosing to go to college over going directly into the work force, yet it is normally combined with numerous other ideologies to form one’s main thought

In Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, there are scenes that trick the audience into thinking that it will give them the movie’s view on the meaning of life. The film, however, never actually gives the audience a real, serious answer to the questions that relate to life’s meaning; by doing this, the people who created the film probably wanted the audience to make up their own views and answers to life’s meanings and purposes (a loosely defined meaning of existentialism). In existentialism, existentialists reject proposed systems that have a definitive answer to the questions involving the meaning and purpose of life; they freely choose standards of values on the human condition, which asks questions, like “Why am I here,” “What does it mean to be human,” or “How should I live my life?” According to Mitchell’s Roots of Wisdom, the idea of existentialism “emphasizes the uniqueness and freedom of the human person as an individual (what makes each life a unique, personal experience) as opposed to the essence of a human being (what makes all of us alive).”

Kierkegaard (cited by Smith, 2015) claimed that existentialism is the freedom to rule your own life. An existential hero makes his own choices independently by creating a life that is moral (Gutek, 2009: 109). This hero is also accountable for his own

Existentialism is a cultural movement that flourished in Europe in the 1940s and 1950s. It may be defined as the philosophical theory which holds that a further set of categories, governed by the norm of authenticity, is necessary to grasp human existence. To approach existentialism in this categorical way may seem to conceal what is often taken to be its “heart” (Kaufmann, 1968), namely, its character as a gesture of protest against academic philosophy, its anti-system sensibility, its flight from the “iron cage” of reason (Crowell, 2004). Existentialism has many different themes, one of which is Freedom and Choice. If any single thesis could be said to constitute the doctrine of existentialism, it would be that the possibility of choice is the central fact of human nature.

Existentialism and Ghost Dog The existentialist movement is primarily concerned with the idea of an authentic existence: living truly as yourself, recognizing the emptiness and meaningless of the world, and not trying to obtain meaning from religion, science, reason, or any established way of life. After a person has recognized the vast insignificance of all ways of life, and comes to the realization that all systems of life - whether religious or governmental or moral - are equal, they can begin to make choices in their lives with complete freedom. This individual must rely on themselves to determine what values should be adhered to, and what purposes are worth living for, separate from the conforms and pressures of society. An excellent example of what an

The spirits are capable of helping or harming humans and their affairs. This means that everything can potentially communicate with other beings. This also means that it is possible for everything to be able to change something in the world. There are elements of feeling and free will in the world. Animals don’t run away from their predators because they’re programmed to do so, they run away because they don’t want to die.

Introduction Since the dawn of man, the meaning of life has long been discussed and argued. Yet, there is still no a concrete conclusion about the real meaning of life. A British philosopher, Julian Baggini, searched for the meaning of life in the approach of the origin of it. He points out two different positions about the origin of life [1]and gives rise to three different attitudes accordingly. I do not comprehensively agree with any of the three attitudes.

The harsh realities of the industrial revolution created a climate of fear and anxiety about the human condition, which made many people more receptive to existential ideas. The birth of the existential movement took place following World Wars I and II and influential philosophers such as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Sartre, who were in conflict with the predominant ideologies of their time, were committed to exploring and understanding human experience. Existentialism has three main branches; Christian existentialism represented by Kierkegaard, Jaspers, Marcel and May; aethestic existentialism represented by Sartre, Camus and Nietzsche and Jewish existentialism represented by Buber, Yalom and Frankl. (Professor M.L.O Rourke Handout October 2016). The Humanistic version of existential therapy predominantly thrived in America, through the work of Yalom (Van Durzen,

My existentialism project was a radio show, hosted by myself, in which the person I was interviewing demonstrated various qualities of existentialism. Heck Ant(which is meant to be like ‘He Can’t’ as in he can’t find his purpose in life) goes through things like not being able to find a purpose in life, facing an irrational world, and having his ‘rock of life’ roll back down the hill. Heck starts by explaining that he wasn’t able to choose his major by his third year of college which is an example of somebody not being able to find their purpose in life. This is just like how in the Sisyphus model how people are constantly trying to find their purpose. Then Heck goes on to explain how the two boys go in together to buy a lottery ticket.