Group 25 - Last Group

Group 25 presented on what is Existentialism. My answer is simply what Thad was trying to make us do every reading assignment; a sincere struggle with the course content. Existentialism is struggling with the ideas of human consciousness. The struggle is what makes it philosophy. It’s a struggle because there is no object answer in sight. There might be an object answer to all the questions, but we as of right now don’t know.

I feel like Existentialism is different for each different person depending on what a person believes which makes it a unique class to study. If you go into Existentialism with the thoughts and ideas of what it means already firmly established, you are not going to be engaging in philosophical study. I believe that is why Thad had the class teach every class. Some students probably thought that Thad was lazy, and that might be true, but I believe that learning about philosophy from a person who isn’t well established with the ideas is better. The students who are teaching are struggling with the exact same material as the students who are listening. 

Group 25 presentation seemed to be focused on Sartre’s view of life. The words and ideas used felt like only a part of what existentialism truly means. A few times during the presentation I felt like arguing, but someone else brought up the topic first. Group 25 said, “ You are responsible for ever choice..” This is definitely Sartre’s view on freedom and responsibility, but other Existential authors would argue that it is not the case. While I agree with Sartre as it makes logical sense to me, this is a philosophy course; meaning that this is just theory.

This was the first group not to prepare a skit. The group instead had one person who wrote like a five to six page comic that covered the various authors that we learned over the year. The comic was amazing and had the whole class laughing, but I would have like to have seen a group effort in front of the class. Thad ended class saying that there would be no class on Wednesday, and had a funny video show casing various comedians and tying in varies Existential ideas. The last part was basically from Sartre; Existential is a joke, but it’s a joke that we all believe in.