1. Introduction to Religion
Humanities
March 1, 2013
Targeted Question #3

2. Postmodernism Subjectivity Distrust of ALL meta- narratives
Fragmentation
Deconstruction
Hyperreality

3. Existentialism Is What Happens When Religiosity Collides With Secularism

4. Soren Kierkegaard
Born May 5, 1813 to Michael & Ane (The Maid, Michael’s 2nd Wife)
Michael cursed God; felt “cursed” -- depressed
Engagement to Regine Olson; Broken Off
Writes Fear & Trembling in 1843

5. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905--1980 Existentialism’s a Humanism
Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself
Being and Nothingness
Consciousness is a being, the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.

6. Atheism or Theism
“Whoever lives in daily and festive communion with the thought that there is a God could hardly wish to spoil this for himself, or see it spoiled, by piecing together a definition of what God is... Man... is a synthesis of psyche and body, but also... of the temporal and the eternal.”
Soren Kierkegaard
Atheistic existentialism... declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least one being whose existence comes before its essence... That being is man....”
Jean-Paul Sartre

7. Question #3 March 1

8. Define Postmodernism and Describe the traits of Existentialism
Define Postmodernism and Describe the traits of Existentialism. In your definition and descriptions, please include a reference to one of the following: Walker Percy’s book excerpt.... The Truman Show... or “I Am A Spiritual Seeker...” How do these artifacts of the culture embody the ideas/feelings of postmodern people?

9. Let’s Talk... Each Group ask a question about Postmodernism & Existentialism

10. Atheism & Blaise Pascal
For Monday
Targeted Question #4
Atheism & Blaise Pascal
Small Group Research