Flipped Learning Activity- Existentialism

 This blog is written as response to the task given by Dr. Dilip Barad sir  on the 20th century movement called The Existentialism as part of Flipped Learning activity at The Department of English, MKBU.

In this task to understand Existentialism we were given several video resources, by watching those videos we have to understand the movement of Existentialism.

Thought that I liked the most

From those 10 videos on Existentialism i liked some thoughts and those are,

From video 1,

“It's only after realizing the absurdity of life or living in despair that you can fully devote yourself to God and understand him and this can not be preached or achieved by being a part of the herd or community.”

From video 2,

“Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”

Video that I liked the most

There were a total of 10 videos to watch and understand about existentialism in which the first six videos were from the same channel and had very good knowledge and infographics that helped a lot to understand the concept and movement of Existentialism.

The seventh video from the Academy of idea channel was the video that I liked the most because that video covered most of the arias of existentialism and related concepts like,

• The Beginning of Existentialism (19th century, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche)
• Prominent time (20th century, Sartre, Camus, Heidegger, Kafka)
• Concerts of Existentialism (The Human Condition)
• Divine perspective (all-encompassing systems, immortality) & Human Perspective 
• Aristotle’s Essence theory
• Nihilism & Existentialism
• Nietzsche’s thought, Become Who You Are.

The video also gives thoughts like,

“Existentialism is an attitude that recognizes the unresolvable confusion of the human world, yet resists the all-too- human temptation to resolve the confusion by grasping toward whatever appears or can be made to appear firm or familiar…The existential attitude begins with a disoriented individual facing a confused world that he cannot accept.”

Robert Solomon- 

From Hegel to Existentialism.

'Existentialism stresses that what we need most is not a divine perspective of the human conditions but a human perspective.'

'When we come to fully accept that the only existence we can be certain of is a temporal one, the shock of such a realization can help us give strength to stop living in conformity with the masses and instead take control of our own lives and live by standards and values of our own choosing.'

The last thought of the video from Nietzsche,

The Learning outcome:

It was great to use those 10 videos for learning about Existentialism. Those videos make all the concepts about the present movement of The Existentialism very clear.

Through the first six videos we learn about Existentialism and Existentialists with the help of the narrator and the infographic and the very eye catchy videos. Those videos are very interesting and make it easy to understand;.

The seventh video seems like a sum up video for the previous six videos and not just sum up but also contains more than just simple explanation but also from various thoughts from various Existentialists and philosophers.

The Eighth video is about how five year old children will take absurdism and Existentialism.

The ninth video in which the speaker provided his own experience of using Existentialist Philosophy into his routine life. It  provides the practical use of Existentialism in daily life and how we can take all those gloomy philosophical thoughts and hard knowledge into our day to day life.

Questions,

1. What Emil Cioran means when he says, “At twenty we rage against the heavens and the filth they hide; then we grow tired of it. The tragic attitude suits only an extended and ridiculous puberty.”?
2. How Existentialism differs from Nihilism (that talks about meaninglessness) and Transcendentalism (that talks about Individual)?
3. What Hermann  Hesse means by “all suicides have the responsibility of fighting against the temptation of suicide.”?
4. Why Camus consider the outcome of Existentialism as the Philosophical Suicide?
5. Why do Existentialists fight against Nihilism? (video 6)