Existentialism Lesson Plans

1. Cosmology Power of Ten
...Family name distinguishes me from other families. Vocabulary identity enculturation culture familial impose gender column significance nationality self-esteem distinguish linguistic personality roots behavior Resources Web Articles of Related Interest o Becoming More Authentic: The Positive Side of Existentialism o Martin Heidegger's vision of becoming more Authentic o Our Existential Predicament: Loneliness, Depression, Anxiety, & Death. o Test your authenticity: Selected questions from the Authenticity Test

2. One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
.... speaker combine Definition: A combination especially of business or political interests. Also, a harvesting machine that heads, threshes, and cleans grain while moving over a field. Context: In Chief Bromden's mind, the world is run by an all-powerful, all-seeing secret group the Combine. speaker existentialism Definition: A philosophical movement embracing diverse doctrines but centering on analysis of individual existence in an unfathomable universe and the plight of the individual who must assume ultimate responsibility for his acts of free will without any certain knowledge of what is right or wrong or...

3. Post-Modernism
...ponse to Modernism, in particular its distinction between high and low culture - Response to such things as a world lived under nuclear threat and threat to geosphere, to a world of faster communication, mass mediated reality, greater diversity of cultures and mores and a consequent pluralism o neo-existentialism (post-WWII) ? from individual and death to society as a whole?s relationship to death (growing environmental concerns) - Acknowledgement and struggle against a world in which, under a spreading technological capitalism, all things are commodified and fetishized (made the object of desire) and in whi...

4. Reality Ethics: solving ethical cases
..., are examined. The chapter covers the institutionalization and acceptance of moral philosophies, the exercise of pure reason, revelation as a source of ethics, naturalistic moral philosophies, ethical systems based on empirical study of society, experimentalism, logical positivism, utilitarianism, existentialism, and other moral philosophies. Following a conclusion that summarizes the previous 3 chapters, appendixes present 18 case studies and the American Association of School Administrators' code of ethics. www.askeric.org ERIC_NO: ED362249, Ethics in the Work Environment: Applied Bioethics in the Hospita...

5. One Stage at a Time
...rience different emotional stages as you coped with the news? Have you or has anyone you know experienced the stages of grief as Kubler-Ross describes them? Did you (or the other person) progress from one stage to another, or did you detect another pattern? Further Questions for Discussion: What is existentialism and why do victims of disease and trauma commonly explore this philosophy? How has the medical community worked to "destigmatize" cancer patients? To what extent do you think they have been successful? How are cancer patients portrayed in the media? What therapeutic methods are commonly used to trea...