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I’ve spent most of my adult life chasing a kind of certainty : the belief that people are susceptible to beauty, emotion and compassion.
Fundamental to this belief is what the French call existential engagement. Whenever I read or watch something, I take it seriously. If I read a text in philosophy or ethics, I’ll consider whether it is something I should take on board in my own life. Routinely, I read things that reshape my world view, demolishing my old life, making me rebuild it from the rubble. The most recent example is 19th century German romanticism, which helped me consider various different ways of romanticizing the world, bringing back a colour to things I didn’t know I had lost.
This kind of existential engagement is an imperative, for to live is to perceive.
If I value existential engagement, then most of the imperative of modern life seems to diverge in the opposite direction, towards existential detachment.
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19 июн 2021