Sentence examples for authentic existence from inspiring English sources

Existentialists have seen Kafka's environment of guilt and despair as the ground upon which to construct an authentic existence.

Authentic existence is not, according to Buri, distinctively Christian, and he has been led to a position not altogether different in principle from that of Troeltsch.

Shepard wrote the play for the actor Stephen Rea, who stars as a successful New York art dealer who leaves behind his extravagant life style in search of a more authentic existence in the wilderness.

Heaven is not really about a world to come but about the transformation of the world we have: "Only by a readiness to abandon our dished-up world can we live in the hope of a more authentic existence in the future".

Bultmann proposed to restate the message of and about Jesus in terms of the existentialist philosophy of Martin Heidegger: the word of the Cross summoned people to authentic existence by liberating them from the past and opening up to them a new future.

Maryna's plan, rather vague, is for everyone to pitch in toward a humble communal life somewhere, a more authentic existence; the group is inspired in part by Fourier's then fashionable ideas but most of all by the weary actress's desire to be done with the tired part of Maryna Zalezowska and take on a meaty new role.

But that brief taste of genuine positive reciprocity was revelatory of what an authentic social existence could be.

C. W. E. Bigsby says in a perceptive booklet he wrote on Stoppard for the British Council: While it is clear that none of his characters control their own destiny... it is equally obvious that their unsinkable quality, their irrepressible vitality and eccentric persistence, constitute what Stoppard feels to be an authentic response to existence.

But even here it must be admitted that what makes existence authentic is not the correctness of the narrative understanding it adopts.

Because if you look at the history of Cyber Monday, then you realize that my creating Awesome Tuesday two seconds ago is just as valid and authentic as the existence of Cyber Monday.

The argument runs through all his early works that human beings are distinguished by the fact that they have authentic attributes of existence and transcendence that is, by their ability to raise questions about themselves and their freedoms which cannot be posed in material or scientific terms, and by their resultant capacity for decisive reversal, self-transformation and transcendence.