WHEN John-Paul Sartre wrote his magnum opus Being and Nothingness it was criticized for being an ethical vacuum. The problem is that Existentialism starts from the existence of the individual and the claim that it creates itself and is entirely responsible for its actions. But in that case how do you move from the individual …
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To ambiguity and beyond!
HOW the collective emerges out of the individual or how the individual emerges out of the community are questions that go to the heart of modern society. Of course, two possible solutions are either that there is no such thing as community or that there is no such thing as the individual. But for the …
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