Philosophy

Explain how an existential approach to the question of what it means to be a human being hinders or promotes concern for humanity. To answer this prompt, you will have to discuss 1) Barrett’s analysis and presentation of Heidegger’s thought, 2) Sartre’s Existentialism is a Humanism, and 3) Beauvoir’s The Ethics of Ambiguity. You will have to explain how an understanding of Dasein, the for-itself, and the genuinely free man does or does not require an engagement with and concern for the freedom of others.