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Philosophy
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The Event is Being:
The Philosophy of Sartre Reconsidered
By Fatemeh Chehregosha Azinfar
(ISBN 1-934048-09-8)
In the past we have 'worn' ourselves out with the attempt
to try to find the meaning behind our lives in connection with that of another
Being. If this link were to be broken and if we were to mentally decide to frame
the essence of our being ourselves, no longer as papers cut by an artisan as
Sartre would describe the divine order but as human beings conscious of the
extent of their creative force as singular actants who bring themselves forward
every single moment of their lives with each thought, act and decision-- how can
we successfully chart our paths? How can we take the full force of our liberty
in hand and create a world in which suffering, hunger, war and neglect were to
become extinct as qualifiers of existence? In a word how can we as human beings
re-mold ourselves anew with the intention of becoming the participants, rather
than the spectators of life? With this axiom we would not only be morally
required to bring about change and improvement in our societies, but we would
intrinsically be called to shoulder the responsibility as well. How we at the
beginning of our millennia choose to reinvent ethics in view of our failing
religious laws will demand looking at our political, philosophical and artistic
theories and finding ways out of their negations and contradictions. This book
does not so much deal with the question of metaphysics, rather it tries to find
solvents for the activity we call living and bringing forth a system in which
such an exercise could be properly allowed. |
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