To ‘Be’ or to ‘Do’: Is that the Question?
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.65828/6enn6724Keywords:
Being, doing, Heidegger, Sartre, authenticity, ethics, ontical, ontological.Abstract
This paper explores the concepts of 'Being' and 'Doing' and is based on my workshop at the SEA 2015 conference, 'Being & Doing'. Can we separate the meaning of 'being' and 'doing'? While many people will see a clear difference it seems that for existential philosophy 'being' is fundamentally an activity, a 'doing': both Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre attempted to put a philosophy of 'Being' into political action/doing. This paper will explore these issues and hopefully raise some important questions for existential therapists.
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