Justifying Our Existence : : An Essay in Applied Phenomenology / / Graeme Nicholson.
In his magnum opus Being in Time (1927), Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) argued that individuals have assumed that their existence is "a given," when in actual fact they simply have the ability to be. Justifying Our Existence examines the ways in which human beings attempt to calm their exist...
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| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. THE ABILITY TO BE
- 3. MAGNIFYING THE SELF
- 4. JUSTIFYING THE SELF
- 5. MAGNIFYING THE COMMUNITY
- 6. JUSTIFYING THE COMMUNITY
- 7. A SPIRITUAL EXISTENCE
- 8. CONCLUSION
- Notes
- Index