Michael [Ted Danson], Chidi [William Jackson Harper], and Eleanor [Kristin Bell] in ‘Existential Crisis’ S2 E4 of The Good Place, dir. Beth McArthur-Miller (Schur, 2017).
What is human freedom? How does it relate to consciousness? Are human relationships inevitably conflictual? This week introduces existentialism and focuses on Jean Paul Sartre’s existentialist account of freedom, consciousness, and our relations with others.
Stephen Crowell, ‘”Existence Precedes Essence”’ and ‘Freedom and Value’, in ‘Existentialism,’ Entry in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2015): https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/existentialism/#ExiPreEss
