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A Critical Assessment Of Nigerian Federalism
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1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
The question of human existence
has attracted so many considerations. There are some who approached it
from the point of view of its absurdity and meaninglessness. Most of
such people are atheists like Martin Heidegger, with Albert Camus and
Jean Paul Sartre who played down very much, the essence of human
existence as Hegel also did. However, there is the other group of
existentialists who discussed human existence as a worthwhile venture.
Such include the chief founder of contemporary existentialism in the
person of Soren Kierkegaard. These philosophers expounded certain
existential tenets which according to Lescoe (9) are geared towards
“analyzing the basic structures of human existence and to call
individuals to an awareness of their existence in its essential
freedomâ€.
The problem of human existence is related wholly to this
concept of freedom. Its use and abuse makes and mars man respectively.
This is because freedom remains the pivot upon which man asserts
himself. It is his relationship to this that categorizes him either as
authentic or inauthentic individual. Thus, the measure of the
meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life is highly subjective but
whichever way it is determined by the degree of commitment which one
puts in as he tries to assert himself by the exercise of freedom.
Another
question to be examined here remains whether one can live authentically
when one has no authentic relation to the community which Kierkegaard
regard as the crowd? It also takes into consideration the question of
freedom and choice, man’s quest for existential meaning and
Kierkegaard’s analysis of man’s stages on life way.
It is therefore
in a bid to clarify some of these mind-bogging issues that the
researcher is out to expose what Kierkegaard considers to be the gauge
or the standard of meaningful human existence. With this in view, the
work is a confrontation of man with the naked facts of his freedom and
duty through which he makes the best out of his life as an individual.
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