Kierkegaard, Repetition and Ethical Constancy

Watts, Daniel

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“…Because individual selves develop in view of an imagined ideal, they do not in the first instance make decisions on the basis of principles or the fulfillment of social roles ( Watts, 2017 ); rather, humans generate principles and adhere to the roles they adopt and the expectations those roles impose upon them in response to their aptitude for helping them bring their present actuality into line with their imagined ideal selves. Consequently, the process of personal development is one that proceeds by way of identification with or endorsement of the values, principles, and roles that individuals take to be conducive to the actualization of their envisioned ideals.…”

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Suffering, authenticity, and meaning in life: Toward an integrated conceptualization of well-being

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Hanson

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Most conceptions of well-being either ignore suffering or assume an ideal version of human life in which suffering would be eliminated. This trend is especially emblematic of positive psychology. Recent research on well-being indicates a mediating function of meaning in life between suffering and well-being demonstrating that making sense of past experiences is significantly correlated with high presence of meaning in life. Hence, meaning-making serves the role of an active coping mechanism that alleviates suffering. This and related strategies of defining, measuring, and augmenting well-being however overlook a form of suffering that is ineliminable and in fact essential to personal growth. In this paper the insights of the existentialist philosopher Søren Kierkegaard are developed to formulate an integrated conceptualization of well-being that regards “negative” affects as crucial for a rich and complete life. The complexity of the relationship between meaning in life, suffering, and authenticity concerning well-being are discussed. A synthetic perspective on the subjective dimension of the experience of suffering and on the objective nature of human limitations that often cause suffering is discussed in relation to the notions of meaning in life and authenticity. Finally, an integrated conceptualization of well-being is posited. It entails suffering as constitutive of meaning in life and authenticity, which are key components of a well-lived life.

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Suffering, authenticity, and meaning in life: Toward an integrated conceptualization of well-being

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Hanson

2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…Nemesis, is Philip Roth's last novel and as a prolific novelist, it abounds in strong existentialist themes which include questions about death, God, existence and fate. One of the popular opinions about the existentialists, as Flynn mentions, is that the existentialist enters this world of limited and relative observation and assessment with his/her drive to 'personalize' the most impersonal phenomena in our lives (5). This could be noted throughout Nemesis as we find Bucky Cantor struggling with his own choices, which he made in the past and constantly caught in a gripping sense of guilt throughout his life.…”

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Exploring the Issues and Challenges of Human Existence in Philip Roth's Novel 'Nemesis'

Thiyagarajan¹

2022

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Philip Roth’s Nemesis is a unique novel which categorically lays stress on powerful and burning existential outrage of the writer through the character, Bucky Cantor. Nemesis perfectly portrays the anxiety, fear and the hopelessness created by the polio epidemic in the Newark Jewish community through the character of the twenty-three-years-old, Bucky Cantor. In his writing, Roth explores the terrible impacts of the epidemic, the explanation of which resemble with that of the current coronavirus pandemic. As the epidemic kills people and leave the survivors with permanent disability; the protagonist himself is getting affected by it. Roth deals deeply with the protagonist’s inner conflicts and the existential angst experienced by him, as he becomes more and more disillusioned with his own beliefs. It is not so arduous a task to notice even in the first reading of the novel, the recurring instances of the protagonist reeling under the burden of existential crisis and who is apparently seen to be in a perpetual conflict with himself, to the extent that he feels, “the only way to save a remnant of his honour was in denying himself everything he had ever wanted for himself” (262). Though existentialism as a philosophy became popular during the twentieth century after the World War I and continued to have its sway through the Great Depression and the World War II, its relevance in the contemporary times cannot be ignored, especially when humanity as a whole is still stuck in the trauma of the irreparable devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which again perfectly parallels the plot of Nemesis where the impetus which initiates the existential crisis in the protagonist is the tragic event of the polio epidemic. Regarded as one of the ‘fathers of existentialism’ along with Friedrich Nietzsche (Flynn 3), Kierkegaard’s philosophical concepts which constructs on the human condition and his views on notions such as self-realization, anxiety, despair, tragedy and the search for meaning are particularly inviting to apply those concepts to Roth’s Nemesis which would eventually render a new dimension and appreciation for the novel.

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“… Usp. Westfall, 2009 i 2015Pyper, 2007; Bodwitch, 2009, Stock, 2015Ryan, 2017;Watts, 2017 i Wennerscheid 2018 14 Termin "redatelj", "réalisateur" je Weberov, usp. 1996., dok se za mnogoslojnost Kierkegaardovoga autorstva Westfall više služi terminom "izvedba", usp Westfall, 2007..…”

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Filozofija glume i njezine granice: “Kriza općenito i kriza u životu glumice” Sørena Kierkegaarda

Feldman¹

2020

Metafilozofija I Pitanja Znanstvene Metodologije: Radovi Petog Okruglog Stola Odsjeka Za Filozofiju

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Kierkegaard, Repetition and Ethical Constancy

Cited by 7 publications

References 41 publications

Suffering, authenticity, and meaning in life: Toward an integrated conceptualization of well-being

Suffering, authenticity, and meaning in life: Toward an integrated conceptualization of well-being

Exploring the Issues and Challenges of Human Existence in Philip Roth's Novel 'Nemesis'

Filozofija glume i njezine granice: “Kriza općenito i kriza u životu glumice” Sørena Kierkegaarda

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