The first of these claims might seem obvious, even when 'suffering' is understood to mean not mere pain but existential suffering, the sort of frustration, alienation and despair that arise out of our experience of transitoriness.
Her fears — which were largely existential; no mere adolescent quirks, these, since Frankie serves as McCullers's stand-in — dominated her home.
The method's anchoring principle, that we hang onto only what "sparks joy," deftly reconfigures the notion of tidying and decluttering as mere throwing away: transformative existential keeping seems to be Kondo's lesson.
Obviously, this definition holds refractory symptoms to be something other than mere intolerable suffering, so existential intolerable suffering in the end of life would, accordingly, be an insufficient indication for palliative sedation.
His baccalaureate thesis, De Principio Individui ("On the Principle of the Individual"), which appeared in May 1663, was inspired partly by Lutheran nominalism (the theory that universals have no reality but are mere names) and emphasized the existential value of the individual, who is not to be explained either by matter alone or by form alone but rather by his whole being (entitate tota).
Yet oil companies and exporters continue to drill and explore, to enjoy their assets and hedge against future losses, as though climate change were a mere financial risk rather than an existential threat to peoples' lives and livelihoods.
Perhaps, more importantly, is the danger now of an existential variety, as opposed to mere criminal opportunism?
Moreover, if you dispense with romantic and existential aspects of politics as mere frippery, you may well knock away the philosophical foundation of what you profess to believe.
However, Rolling Stone described the album as "too often a monochromatic dirge of banal existential imagery cloaked around the mere skeleton of a musical idea".
He took on his ventures as a search for alternate modes of living and being — not mere anthropological study, but more like continuing education in existential possibility.
