By William A. Luijpen, Henry J. Koren
After describing guy as life and its implications, this publication explores the which means of data and fact when it comes to existential pondering. subsequent, it develops the concrete inspiration of human freedom, implied in life, and man's basic intersubjective attitudes of hatred, indifference, love, and justice. within the ultimate bankruptcy it increases the matter of man's metaphysical size and the life of God.
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Let us suppose, however, that I love bathing. In this case water ""ould show itself quite different to me. " 1£ I were a fireman, water would again be something else-an extinguisher. I would never be able to affirm this meaning if I did not know what a fire is and what is meant by extinguishing a fire. For a fisherman water is neither a cooling wave nor an extinguisher, for a fisherman faces water with a quite different intention, so that it has an entirely different meaning to him. Anyone who in wintertime has the misfortune to break through the ice and is carried underneath the frozen surface sees the most fearsome aspect water can show.
77C£. Buytendijk, op. , p. 240. " Sartre, L' etre et Ie neant, p. 369. 79Cf. H. C. van de Hulst and C. A. van Peursen, Phaenomenologie en Natuurwetenschap, Utrecht, 1953. BOOne can appeal here to explicit texts of the philosophers of existence themselves. They constantly repeat that there is no such thing as human nature. , as a thing. " Heidegger, Sein und Zeit, p. 54. , they are essentially distinct from man. 82 Being-consciousin-the-world constitutes what man essentially is. Man does not enter into the world because there happens to be a world and it is up to him to enter it or not or to withdraw from it at his discretion.
XIX (1957), pp. 223-224. 74"I1 Y a done un autre sujet au-dessous de moi, pour qui un monde existe avant que je sois Ja et qui y marquait rna place. 'instrument de mes choix personnelles et se fixe sur tel ou tel monde, mais Ie systeme de 'fonctions' anonymes qui enveloppent toute fixation particuliere dans un projet generaL" Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenologie de la perception, p. 294. 75 Cf. F. J. J. Buytendijk, "Vernieuwing in de Wetenschap," Annalen van het T hijmgenootschap, vol. 42 (1954), pp. 230-249.
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