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The Ethical Life, Existential Tension of Choice, Content of the Choice
the Ethical Life
Existential Tension of Choice
- The dialectic of choice causes tension. This act, the act of choosing freely presents a problem.
- For every act of choosing in so far as it has content, it is not wholly my act.
- The context is also involved in the act. In a sense, the choice is not completely yours. I can only choose what already is.
- Here, the ‘is’ is existential. Otherwise I should be creating than choosing, that would be independent of the content of the choice. In creation, the emphasis on…
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Understanding Existentialism: Concept of Existentialism, Existential Philosophers - Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre
Understanding Existentialism
Concept of Existentialism
- Existentialism is more easily understood by the (broadly) common cluster of concepts it introduces: freedom and authenticity, facticity and thrownness, anxiety and absurdity, being and becoming … Of these authenticity and freedom occupy the pride of place in the emphasis bestowed upon them in existential philosophical literature.
- Thomas Flynn, in his introduction to Existentialism writes “While the supreme value of existentialist thought is commonl…
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