Question

Please state at least two central ideas you found interesting in each of these thinkers (eight ideas total)-- Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Marcel, Sartre--and tell which thinker/idea you agree with most and why, and which idea/thinker you disagree with most and why.

Answer 1

KIERHEGAARD: The central ideas of Kierkegaard was he emphasized the idea of a lone individual before God, for his own fate. Another idea is, he considered truthful people could achieve a full unity of purpose with all other people who were als living in the same truth individually.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE (1844-1900): The central ideas of Nietzsche is critical to the very idea of objective truth and other idea related to Christianity as a Life. He argued that Christian mortality is based on the promise of an after life.To him, God is dead and nihilism takes control lest one creates new values. Those who create new values are consider to be Superman or Ubermensh.

MARCEL: His ideas concluded that life is only something that has to be tolerated and that close relationships between individuals should be avoided. Another idea is based on freedom, which is the most philosophical enduring topic of Marcel in all his works.

SATRE: The concept of freedom is a dominant theme in his political works. His perspective on freedom changed substantially throughout his life. Another work is the concept of bad faith along with the analysis of oppression. He considered it as a deep confusion about one's own basic needs, attitudes, desires and actions.

DISAGREE: Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, both have different perspective in relationship with God, which means it is incredibly complex related to how both of them position the idea of God. The ways in which they showed up the diverge are manifold and are anti-rationalists and anti-humanists in the perspective of philosophy. They both understand Christianity very differently not merely through the fact they believe or don't. For Kierkegaard, Christ is the absurd paradox,that God became man and was entirely given his ministry before dying to the King of Kings. For Neitzsche it's certainly revolting because of values and beliefs.

AGREE: I agree with Marcel, because he explained the freedom cannot be achieved unless the person extricates herself from the grip of the egocentrism, since freedom is not simply doing what desire dictates. He also explains freedom through both negative and positive approach to make it a clear understanding within the confines of relationships with others.