Wednesday, September 27, 2006

pretensions



Consistent orientation towards death, which breaks the pretensions of everything which claims attention, my own pretensions above all, without any slackening of responsibility and energy in choosing and fulfilling the possibilities that are open on each occasion, that alone is the mode of existence of the enlightened and resolved human being.



HJ Blackham on Heidegger
Six Existentialist Thinkers

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