Your life .. you

 

The existential philosophers teach us that we are the only ones  responsible for creating a meaningful life in a world that is absurd and  unfair.

If you stand on the edge of a cliff, you will feel a sense of  confusion and confusion. Do not be afraid of falling. You are afraid to  surrender to the desire to throw yourself into the abyss. Nothing will  stop you.

Danish philosopher Soren Kirkgard describes this situation as  "existential anxiety" because you are here, at the edge of the abyss,  testing your pure freedom directly.

You can do whatever you wish, to advance towards the abyss, or to remain your place, it is up to you. Consciously aware that you are free to decide the context of your life to jump or not to hatch - stuck as a duel. "We face the same panic in all our life choices," Kirkgard says. Every step we take is an option we take for ourselves.

Kirkgard's  argument that life is a series of choices and that these choices are  blowing (or not blowing) our lives is meaningless - the cornerstone of  existentialism. Instead of assuming responsibility for society or religion, the  individual has the responsibility to give meaning to his or her life and  to live it authentically.

The  subject of authenticity was preferred by the German philosopher Martin  Heidegger: "Why do our daily projects look so daunting when we face  death? A friend or relative dies, and this leads us to a new direction. We  resign from the job and stop doing the daily burdens, and our attention  shifts to aspects we have ignored in the past.

In his book "Being and Time," Heidegger points out that the meaning of  our existence must be related to time, that we are eternal beings, born  in a world of existence, accepted by its religion and civilization,  part of a pre-written history and for this world we engage in many  delusions to master our affairs.

We  may have a family or build a house or a functional life, so we put  ourselves in a stream toward some kind of future, but our streets have a  limit, a point where everything ends, whether we complete it or not,  and that is our death. This is what Heidegger calls "the march to death" or "the existence for death".

But  we are so busy in amusement and delights that we simply forget that  there is a limit to our quest, and so we live an untruthful life. We will not find that authentic life until we show it on the horizon of our death.

Authenticity and Information

Kirkgard argues that news bulletins prevent people from living  authentically, that it is an intrusive entity, that has stopped us from  real experiences.

The mass culture generates a loss of individual content, which is  called "settlement." According to Kirkgard: Instead of engaging in our  original ideas of forming our own opinions, most of us adopt the views  that the news builds for us.

The reality lies in doing already

The  French existential philosopher Jean Paul Starter tells us that we are  alone, submerged on earth in the midst of eternal responsibilities. We have no goal other than ourselves, and no amount we do for ourselves, but many of us remain disrespectful.

We fall into false beliefs, deceiving ourselves about that radical freedom. In  his book "The Existence of a Human Doctrine," Sartre finds it frank and  cruel: "Our faith terrifies people, they have no other way of accepting  their unhappiness in this way: the circumstances were against me, I  deserve a much better life than I do. I  admit that I have never lived in great love or friendship, but this is  because I have never met a man or woman who deserves it. If I do not write great books, this is because time is not possible. If I do not have children to give them myself, it is because I have not found a man to share my life with. I have a sense of rationality, intentions and inexperienced  possibilities; but they are perfectly valid, soaking me in the merit  that I can not see by examining any of my previous actions. "

"For the Judyans, there is no love but the works of love, and no  genius other than those manifested through art, the genius of Prost lies  in the universality of his works, the genius of Racine lies in his  series of tragedies, and there is nothing outside that range.

There  is no doubt that this idea may seem harsh to a person who has not  achieved success in his life, but on the other hand he urges others to  understand that reality is calculated and that dreams, expectations and  hopes know a person as a dream, They know it as negative and not positive. "

According to Sartre, we are only the sum of our actions.

The  first principle of existentialism is that existence precedes the  feasibility, ie, unlike the temporary time to cook eggs, which is made  to cook eggs, humans do not program with a specific purpose. Only through our actions will we determine what our future will be. He says: "Man is not without his own project."

Yet, as skulls, people deceive themselves to believe that destiny is the only authority over them. Placing responsibility for their actions on others or on a moral law. According to Sartre the reality lies in deeds only. We commit ourselves to this life, and draw our own image, and there is nothing but nothingness.

Rig desire

To say that we have absolute freedom to pursue the meaning behind our  lives requires no obstacles, but that is not always the case.

In  "The Ethics of Mystery," author and existential philosopher Simon de  Beauvoir points out that we have no responsibility in our childhood,  living in a world prepared with preordained values. As we mature and  immortalize ourselves, we begin to take control of ourselves, but many  of us relapse into his old childhood, So why?

 Some of us are far from our goals, and many of us manipulate them to  pursue desires that we do not represent. We may be drawn into futile  endeavors, thereby depriving ourselves of a glorious future for  ourselves.

The  problem is that the oppressed do not usually realize that they are  persecuted. They see the world as an entity that does not change "as a  natural situation." The only escape according to Bouvouar is the rebellion: "the oppressor  can not reach his freedom as an entity except in rebellion"

As  De Beauvoir put it in her famous saying: "Life is the perpetuation of  life and its transcendence, if all it does is to preserve life, then  life will be nothing but death." Life for me is a permanent change, an  unstable system where balance is constantly lost and reclaimed , For her Joas is synonymous with death. 

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