Self-Encounter: A Study in Existentialism (1961)

A wonderful 1961 show with Hazel Barnes called Self-Encounter which provides an introductory exploration of existentialism.

Existentialists take human existence and the human condition to be a fundamental issue. They tend to be radical individualists who privilege our lived experience and choice. They focus on themes such as: freedom, authenticity, the individual, meaning, anxiety, alienation, death, dread, the absurd, contingency, and nihilism. They are often also suspicious of any fixed, pre-determined human nature, objective/universal values, and abstract philosophical systems. Some of the most important existentialist thinkers (or at least thinkers associated with existentialism) include Jean-Paul Sartre, Martin Heidegger, Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, Karl Jaspers, Albert Camus, and Simone de Beauvoir. (My Description)

Chapters:
00:00 Being & Nothingness
28:47 The Far Side of Despair
57:35 To Leap or Not to Leap
1:26:41 Bad Faith
1:55:39 Hell is Others
2:24:46 A Psychology of Freedom
2:53:39 Responsible Freedom
3:22:29 Engaged Freedom
3:51:25 All Men are Mortal
4:20:23 Sin Without God

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