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Existential options: microsuicide versus authenticity

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  • Ph.D. Aurora HRITULEAC

    (Postdoctoral Recipient, Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch The Knowledge Based Society – Researches, Debates, Perspective)

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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.

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  • Ph.D. Aurora HRITULEAC, 2011. "Existential options: microsuicide versus authenticity," Conferinta Stiintifica Internationala Logos Universalitate Mentalitate Educatie Noutate - Lumen International Scientific Conference Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty, Editura Lumen, Department of Economics, vol. 1, pages 1-95, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:lum:rev10b:v:1:y:2010:i::p:95
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    Keywords

    existentialism; life; death; awareness; microsuicide; authenthicity;
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    JEL classification:

    • A23 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics - - - Graduate
    • Y8 - Miscellaneous Categories - - Related Disciplines

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