What Obligates Us. An Essay on Human Being and Existence / / Karl Verstrynge.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Verstrynge, Karl,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]; Uitgeverij Damon, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: What Obligates Us ; Volume 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (V, 166 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; 1 Life Befalls Us --; 2 The View on Our Lives --; 3 Human Being and the Abyssal Break from the Animal --; 4 The Power to Transcend --; 5 The Original Lack in the Human Condition --; 6 The Indebtedness of Our Being --; 7 Form, Direction and Freedom --; Epilogue --; Accountability --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index of Persons
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110696523; 9783110766820; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110994544; 9783110994537
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110696523
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Karl Verstrynge.

Anyone who ponders on existence, touches upon the whole of life. But how to ponder on that which has befallen us even before we have uttered a first word? And how do we get a grip on that which must elude us in spite of all our protest or regret? The trilogy What Obligates Us raises the question about the ethical foundation of the human condition. This first part discusses the exceptional nature of human beings. In their broken relationship to themselves and their surroundings, humans learn of an indebtedness. From this simple truth they cannot hide without alienating themselves from their own being.