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The particular task of philosophy is to describe what it means to be in a particular concrete situation.
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Existential thinking,the thinking of an involved self,
is threatened by the interest in abstractions and by bureaucratic societies which reduce individuals to averages.
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Primary reflection is analytical ;
secondary reflection is recuperative,
allowing the self to discover its being in action.
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The immediate encounter with the mystery of being is in terms of a lived participation ; being is an internal relation ;
the self,or the body,is not an object of knowledge,
but the subject who knows himself as he acts.
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To know others existentially is to encounter them,not as things,
but in acknowledgment of them as persons.
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Freedom is found when the self turns inward and becomes aware of its capability for commitment and treason.
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