Existential options: microsuicide versus authenticity

Ph.D. Aurora Hrituleac ()
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Ph.D. Aurora Hrituleac: Postdoctoral Recipient, Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch The Knowledge Based Society – Researches, Debates, Perspective

Conferinta Stiintifica Internationala Logos Universalitate Mentalitate Educatie Noutate - Lumen International Scientific Conference Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty, 2011, vol. 1, 95

Abstract: From its very beginnings, philosophy has emphasized the relevance of finitude and mortality for human life and the consequences of this ontological given. Reflection on life has appeared, for a great part of ancient and classical philosophers, but not so much for the contemporary ones, impossible or vane without reflection on death. The awareness of mortality is nothing else but the trigger of life awareness. Existential thinking, philosophical as psychological, has placed again, in our thanathophobic times, great significance upon living a life that is fully conscious of mortality. My paper will approach two existential concepts, one psychological, the other philosophical, highly connected with death awareness: microsuicide and authenticity.

Keywords: existentialism; life; death; awareness; microsuicide; authenthicity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A23 Y8 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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