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DEATH, THE TEST OF LOVE AND THE CONDITION OF LIBERTY – Roger Troisfontaines. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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DEATH, THE TEST OF LOVE AND THE CONDITION OF LIBERTY – Roger Troisfontaines
1) Your partner for a very long time just died because of a fatal accident. What would be the reaction of a positivist on this? Would a rationalist manifest the same reaction? What is the role of fidelity and liberty on these two thoughts?
2) How can death destroy one’s ego? Can a person who eventually gains his autonomy in life fear death? Explain.
3) How did Troisfontaines describe the distinction between the liberty that we had during our birth and on our death? If you were born with congenital illness, how will your consciousness view being and becoming in relation to birth and death?
4) How did Troisfontaines’ relate the ideas of love and liberty to death? Discuss Annie’s situation and be able to relate such to Troisfontaines’ thought on love and liberty.
5) How did Troisfontaines explain his thoughts on a selfish soul? Was Annie a selfish soul? Is it possible for a selfish soul be converted in the realm of death? What is the role of liberty and habits in the consciousness of a selfish soul, says Troisfontaines?
I. my birth have greatly influenced the whole course of my destiny
II. anguish and willful blindness on death: liberty = to accept pain with others or to deny it and be separated from others
III.Death as certain yet completely inexperienceable.
IV. Fear of separationV. test of love and condition of liberty
CONTENTS
BIRTH
My birth took place :I could not shape its pattern
My liberty, which could not intervene in my birth, can now :exercise itself and creates his
beingChoice to be with others or not
(others are significant or not, God & nothingness)
I may bring my own deathExperiences in life, in its many
positive and negative forms, educates our liberty. The completed and egoistic person
remains to be separatedSuicide = failure to endure
learning from life’s negative forms
BIRTH & LIBERTY (self-autonomy) FOLLOW PRE-
EXISTING LAWS
CREATE YOUR OWN LAWS
Fear and avoidance:we cultivate the habit of
thinking always of death as something that concerns others
Happiness is measured by: union, suffering (pain) by
rupture (isolation & separation)Attitude on these two choices
define our character on lifeAt the moment of dying
He chooses his degree of intimacy with the others or on the contrary his centring on self
He adopts for eternity the attitude which pleases him.
ANGUISH AND BLINDNESS (selfishness)
Understanding deathmetaphysical or religious world-outlook.
Eternity has nothing in common with time
Death as certain yet inexperienceable
rupture of a certain mode of union with the world is: Painful
Imminence of danger frees us from: our attachments
One of two phenomena is noticed in the person thus roused:Either a conversion
from mediocrity to a better life,
or on the contrary an exacerbation of wanton egoism.
FEAR OF SEPARATION
Liberty permits love Every man is born into a community
which imposes itself on him as a fact anterior to his free will.Autonomy: Choice to love the
relation (union with community is to commune oneself) or not
Man in Isolation: death must seem to him the worst of catastrophes: because it seems to threaten the
annihilation of that ego unable to endure the wounds of life, will
commit suicide, when life – from his individual point of view – is no longer worth the trouble of being lived.
Martyrs: suffering of death on account of adherence to a cause
Test of love and condition of liberty