Existentialism

In this class, we went over some Sarte and Simone de Beauvoir. The questions that majorly stuck with me were from the Simone de Beauvoir section so that is what I will be covering for this particular blog post today. The first of these questions that piqued my curiosity was one about common ways we find ourselves not willing to be free. I think that this is something I actually find myself thinking about quite a lot but I never had it put into a question like this. I think that in the current state of the world - with the coronavirus going around - there are obvious reasons for our freedoms to be limited in the short-term as a precaution for everyone's safety. However, a sentiment I and my friends have shared is that, even though we now have less freedom to go places and do things, we are still doing essentially what we would have done anyway. We stay inside, play videogames, and study. I think the reason behind this comes from simply relying on what we know and what is easy. Sure

During this class session, the first group talked about Heidegger and death. The first question was about if one can understand the totality of one's own life or if that is something that alludes us even if we can see a corpse right in front of us. I believe that we can never truly grasp the totality of our lives and the fact that we will actually meet our end until we are literally dying at that very second. When you are at a funeral you may think of how you will live a total life and die one day but it is only in hypotheticals as you won't have to actually face that until you are much older or you are dying sometime in the nearer future. Understanding the totality of life requires one to totally live their life up to their death in my opinion. The next question that caught my attention was whether or not we comfort ourselves when we comfort others that are nearing death. I think it depends on how we choose to comfort the person in question. If we choose to tell them that ever