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Loneliness - Loneliness as the Human Condition?: Encyclopedia II - Loneliness - Loneliness as the Human Condition?

Some existentialist philosophy views aloneness as the essence of being human. Each human being comes into the world alone, travels through life as a separate person, and ultimately dies alone. Coping with this, accepting it, and learning how to direct our own lives with some degree of grace and satisfaction is the human condition. However, other existentialist thinkers argue the opposite. Human beings might be said to actively "engage" each other and the universe as they communicate and create, and lon ...

Loneliness: Encyclopedia II - Loneliness - Loneliness as the Human Condition?

Loneliness - Loneliness as the Human Condition?

However, other existentialist thinkers argue the opposite. Human beings might be said to actively "engage" each other and the universe as they communicate and create, and loneliness is merely the feeling of being cut off from this process.

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