History of Philosophy II

Picking up where we left off with Nietzsche we reviewed the concept of the Ubermensch, the phrase God is Dead, Eternal Return - some of this brought up artists who try to impose their will to power on others - here I mentioned Madonna and Oppenheim. Notice the art work on the UAA campus Image Intervention We moved on to look at Heidegger. Notice also this famous film: Der Triumph des Willens To set this up I reminded the class of Hegel's juxtaposition of Being and Nothingness in his Logic. Heidegger writes his response to this in his main book: Sein und Zeit. Sartre writes his book Being and Nothingness in response to Being and Time. The quiz question was a reaction to the laughter of Sartre's conclusion in No Exit that Hell is other people. Is hell other people in your view?