Blog 3 - What Social / Moral Principles do you find compelling and why? How do these principles fit with the personal principles you identified in Blog 2? Do they conflict at all? Do you think you can live according to both? How will you go about doing so? i.e. Prioritize them? Adopt specific ones for specific contexts?


I think Sartre's existentialism is most compelling because one of his ideas is that there is no final judgement, we all just live and then we die.  The reason why I find his idea to be most compelling is because it seems that his way of thinking would just lead to chaos and inhumanity.  However, the realization is that his ideas might actually somewhat better society.  It allows the public to "live in the now" so to speak and find the overall good of society.  His principles are very similar to my own, and I feel that I have managed morals that conclude me to be a decent human being.  I have not based my life around the final judgement of God, however I still have been able to grow as a caring individual with good morals.  Despite my lack of faith, I would still like to believe that there is something after death.  I will not know until that time comes, but because of my hope in something after death, I suppose our ideas somewhat conflict.  However, it is possible to live by both because I don't base my entire decision making processes on faith, which is the principle of Sartre's existentialism.  I mainly use the idea of God as peace of mind. To do so, I will continue to take advantage of each second I am granted on earth.  When I make a poor decision, I will take blame for the poor decision.  It will be because of my morals, my ideas, my principles of life; not what I am guided to live by.  I will follow my beliefs and not judge others for theirs.  Because Sartre's existentialism allows us to all freely voice and adhere to our beliefs I will not look at other people's ideas as wrong or bad.


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