Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: Phenomenolgy and Logic: The Boston College Lectures on Mathematical Logic and Existentialism

Titel: Phenomenolgy and Logic: The Boston College Lectures on Mathematical Logic and Existentialism

Stichwort: Existentialismus (Jaspers, Heidegger, Satre, Marcel); allgemeine Bestimmung; Begriff: Existentialismus

Kurzinhalt: The four that I named are the principal people in the field - the most notable - and they differ remarkably. Jaspers is a Kantian and a Lutheran. Heidegger is an apostate; he was a Jesuit novice for a while, and then he went to a seminary for the ...

Textausschnitt: 9 General Orientation1

219a The subject of existentialism is difficult to line up because there are as many different shades of opinion on every topic as there are writers, and the differences of opinion go right back through the entire history of each thinker. On the other hand, there are certain broad tendencies that are common, and we will concentrate mainly on those. In particular, the question this week, as last week, will be, What about? and not just, What is? We cannot hope to go through the various authors on existentialism in a week. One could spend a week on any particular one and even then not do an entirely thorough job. (Fs)

l The Term 'Existentialism'

219b By 'existentialism,' then, we shall understand the types of method and of doctrine exemplified by Karl Jaspers, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Gabriel Marcel. The term refers to types of method and of doctrine. The name 'existentialism' was admitted by Jaspers without any difficulty, and of course, Sartre has claimed to be the existentialist. On the other hand, Marcel admitted it for a while, but after Humani generis,1 and perhaps more particularly to disassociate himself from Sartre, he decided to refuse to call himself an existentialist. And Heidegger from the beginning claimed that he was concerned with Ek-sistenz. (He is very fond of re-writing words with hyphens in them.)2 (Fs)

220a The four that I named are the principal people in the field - the most notable - and they differ remarkably. Jaspers is a Kantian and a Lutheran. Heidegger is an apostate; he was a Jesuit novice for a while, and then he went to a seminary for the secular priesthood, where he lost his faith and went into philosophy. Sartre is a professional atheist. Marcel is a convert to Catholicism. (Fs)