By Walter Kaufmann
Existentialism may be the main misunderstood of contemporary philosophic positions-- misunderstood as a consequence of its huge attractiveness and normal unfamiliarity with its origins, representatives, and rules. Existential pondering didn't originate with Jean Paul Sartre. It has past non secular, literary, and philosophic origins. In its narrowest formula it's a metaphysical doctrine, arguing because it does that any �Read more...
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I am not saying this now from any mawkish kind of remorse. And, indeed, I could never endure say- 64 DOSTOEVSKY ing, "Forgive me, Papa, I won't do it again," not because I am incapable of saying that-on the contrary, perhaps just because I have been too capable of it, and in what a way, too! As though of design I used to get into trouble in cases when I was not to blame in any way. That was the nastiest part of it. At the same time I was genuinely touched and penitent, I used to shed tears and, of course, deceived myself, though I was not acting in the least and there was a sick feeling in my heart at the time .
As though he would say: "I am worrying you, I am lacerating your hearts, I am keeping everyone in the house awake. Well, stay awake then, you, too, feel every minute that I have toothache. I am not a hero to you now, as I tried to seem before, but simply a nasty person, an impostor. Well, so be it, then! I am very glad that you see through me. It is nasty for you to hear my despicable moans: well, let it be nasty; here I will let you have a nastier flourish in a minute . . " You do not understand even now, gentlemen?
Then I should be able to calculate my whole life for thirty years beforehand. In short, if this could be arranged there would be nothing left for us to do; anyway, we should have to understand that. And, in fact, we ought unwearyingly to repeat to ourselves that at such and such a time and in such and such circumstances nature does not ask our leave; that we have: got to take her as she is and not fashion her to suit our fancy, and if we really aspire to formulas and tables of rules, and well, even...
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