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EXISTENTIAL ANGST

EXISTENTIAL ANGST
We have to make choices, Heidegger argued, without any certainty as to their outcomes -- the only thing we can be certain of is that we face a life of guilt and anxiety. The Scream (1893), by the Norwegian painter Edward Munch powerfully expresses the artist’s anxiety and pessimism, aused by the confusion and loneliness of existence.
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We are all the time pressing into an unknowable future, and having to make choices without any certainty about their outcomes. Guilt and anxiety fall to our lot, especially anxiety in the face of death. We long for our lives to have some metaphysical ground or foundation, and also to have some meaning; yet we have no assurance that any of these things actually exists objectively; and if they do not exist, our lives may just be ultimately meaningless, absurd or else any meaning that they have is meaning that we give them. ` Page 213

THE STORY OF PHILOSOPHY
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