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What Is The Existential Mode

What Is The Existential Mode

The “existential” bit has to do with your own existence — specifically, the meaning of your existence.

Questions like “who am I?” and “why am I here?” and “what are my values?”

There are two modes — two different ways to come at the questions of your own existence and understand who you are:

  1. “reflective self-definition” &
  2. “coherent being.”

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