Alison:
WTG!!!! Nice to know that the Sartrean project isn't dead.
Robin
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Subject: Re: Statement
> >Surely nobody believes ALL their decisions are ethical? Like which
shoelace
> >to tie first, for example?
>
> I have this horrible feeling that, as human beings are moral creatures,
> any decision we make, whether or not that choice is illusory, whether it
> appears trivial or not, is an ethical decision; moreover, that our lives
> and selves are created cumulatively second by second, on the fulcrum of
> each second-by-second decision. I suppose such a view of ethics is an
> existential one, and for me deeply embedded in a poetics. Following this
> to its logical end need not only create unbearable weight, but also
> freedom; it's not a question of dithering about each choice, but
> attempting to become conscious, to understand what an act _is_.
>
> Not that I've personally managed anything like existential sainthood, of
> course; I get it wrong too often.
>
> Best
>
> Alison
>
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