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This is the blog home for Dr. J's PHIL 360: Existentialism course for the Fall 2009 semester at Rhodes College.
The idea that I have never ceased to develop is that in the end a man can
always make something out of what is made of him. --J.P. Sartre
Dr. J's PHIL 360
This is the blog home for Dr. J's PHIL 360: Existentialism course for the Fall 2009 semester at Rhodes College.
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- God as an Object
- Shaping the Freedom of Thought
- My beef with proving God's existence
- Revisiting the Conflict between Existentialism and...
- How Beckett Struck Gold
- Camus vs. Beckett
- Student Film: "The Call"
- Samuel Beckett's "Act Without Words"
- Theistic Absurdity and Living Without Appeal
- Student Film: "Do Not Walk"
- Dada
- Sartre and Lobsters
- Existentialist Ideas in South Park?
- Frankl and Literature for Me
- Student Film: "Excalibur"
- Tillich and Creativity
- meaning and belief in god
- Student Film: "The Housewife in Bad Faith"
- I-Thou, I-It, and Reality TV
- Mind Your Body
- Buber and God
- Affirming the Consequence
- In class we briefly discussed Simone de Beauvoir's...
- To be a courier the way a king would be a courier?
- Sisyphus and Regular Life
- Do we understand everything we experience?
- community
- Thinking about Justification
- laws smaws
- Why Can’t We Be Kings
- Sartre or Merleau-Ponty: Who has the better concep...
- alternative epistemology
- Conflicting Ideas in Buber and Sartre
- Martin Buber vs. NPR
- atheistic existentialist and the choice to ignore god
- The Fifth Amendment in light of Kafka and Sartre
- Wishful Thinking
- Failure through Inaction
- Where is happiness?
- Individualism
- Despair or Laughter
- Per last class discussion on knowledge of God, her...
- Sisyphus.
- The Pusher Man
- To what extent should the indiv. as indiv. be held...
- law
- An Absurd God
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Good job on the film and getting the ball rolling.
ReplyDeleteBefore spelling out why I liked it, first clear the air ofthe one minor criticism I had. I felt like the scene itself was a bit cliche and somewhat overstated. That being said, you were making a short film (emphasis on short), and it's pretty much impossible to create complex, multifaceted characters, situations, and a solid back story ala The Sopranos or The Wire in under 4 minutes. So,that aside, I thought you guys used the movie medium quite well and definitely produced a work that fits the label existentialist, since your movie clearly showcases an example of being in bad faith.
Which brings me to a question I had while watching the scene: I wonder to what extent the woman is in bad faith b/c she is acting like the waiter by objectifying herself and to what extent she is also sort of being like the woman on the date by pretending that her husband's demeaning and bossy comments don't really have the meaning that they obviously do in context. I mean the dude was such a dick, I have a hard time fathoming that she simply let most of his comments slide or agree to follow his "suggestions" b/c she felt that being the perfect homemaker requires one's total submission to another being's will. From the scene, it does defiitely seem like she agrees to what he has to say more often than pretending to transcend it by not make a choice or passing a judgment about the things her husband says. But did anyone else think that maybe her bad faith was some kind of mixture of being what one is in the mode of not being it (girl on date) and not being what one is in the mode of being it (waiter)? I feel like your song choice at the beginning--really great music selections btw--leaves some wiggle room for that interpretation. What did the rest of ya'll think?