The greatest strength of Existentialism is the idea that we create who we are by deciding what is important to us. This strength is also its greatest weakness, because right and wrong is defined by our values, and if all our values are up to us than right and wrong are just matters of opinion. This essay attempts to t...
For IB students who don't have the book The Metamorphosis by Frank Kafka
La metamorfosis es una novela corta escrita por Franz Kafka en 1915. La historia trata sobre Gregorio Samsa, cuya repentina transformación en un enorme insecto dificulta cada vez más la comunicación de su entorno social con él, hasta que es considerado intolerable por su familia y finalmente perece.
Soren Kierkegaard is a major philosopher whose ideas helped to shape Existentialism and Christian Theology. This essay will explore his ideas about the "three modes of being," which are ways in which we could live our lives, and expand on them by developing a new "fourth mode of being."