Existentialism

In many ways, by many a philosopher, the question of being, and human being is that, has been looked into. There are authors, and there are schools. Even so, in The New Encyclopædia Britannica, from 2002, it is stated there is a common course:

“… Since man’s choices cannot, in their view, be rationally grounded, Existentialists do not propose, except incidentally, an ethic in the sense of a set of rules or values, but rather a framework in which action and choice are to viewed. This framework does not tell one what to choose, but it does imply that there are right and wrong ways of choosing. One can be authentic or inauthentic (Heidegger), act in bad faith or with sincerity (Sartre). To act in bad faith is, for example, to follow the herd unquestioningly, or to suppose that given values, given institutions, or one’s own character curtail one’s choices. It is especially in the face of “limit situations” (Jaspers) such as death, struggle, guilt, or anxiety that one becomes aware of one’s responsibility as an agent, as well as of the ultimate inexplicability of the world in which one must act. …”

In fact, what is here stated, is that being seeks perfection. And the being is proven to exist by being perfect or by being not so, since the existing and the failure keeps up each other.

This means history, for example, will forever be in motion, directed by this will to find solution. And this means a human being will forever learn, grow, find new ideas and perspectives, since this perfect state of man indeed exists, by the keeping up of any failure. Jehovah, Ego Eimi, “I Am”, indeed is. And any artwork, will either be good or inaccurate, showing what life is all about. The perfect artwork may give a glimpse of something essential. It is futile, though, to believe one piece of art can carry the wonders and meanings of it all, what life is.

This to see would be the ideal orientation to have. By the materialistic orientation, differently, one would hear one is existing. Any individual would answer to a calling.

We are living in time and circumstance, today, right now, in which many people question existence, as such, and by so doing, also their own existence. Love is what is needed.

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