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Moral principles to guide existentialists

one perceives it to be the existentialists must select from his own theory of knowledge what moral l.e.d. light to 'follow'. The moral existentialist may not want to provide his own 'power source' from metaphorical wind electrical power generators perhaps for his own efficient moral l.e.d. light yet he may need to, for the conscious decision to give highest credibility for a moral tool kit of principles will of course be his or her own personal decision.

Sartre went over how serialized praxis and dialectical reason operate socially in his book 'The Critique of Dialectical Reason. It may well be the social morality is also given through a process of social dialectical interaction that an existentialist could consider.

Of course constructions of social morality would not preclude an existentialist from trying to take up Christian or Biblically based moral behaviors yet he or she may not wish to give credibility to the divine Creator as actually tying in to the presented moral principles. An existentialist is foremost a subjective perceiver as a sort of empiricist of epistemology. Faith in God would be an ultimate challenge for an existentialist perhaps in that he would need to give complete recognition to the reality of another besides himself in a complex construction of relationships including percepts, existence with a body in a space-time and so forth. Actually faith in God might be easy for an existentialist since it does not require faith in the world or belief that appearances and percepts are anything more substantive than the matters of idealism that Bishop Berkley wrote about, perhaps, in his dialogues.

Everyone is an existentialist though some don't know it. In existence meanings and morals may be detached by the reflective consciousness from the world for itself. Such detachment and contemplation of what exist and presents itself to the perceptions and cogitation is an essential trait of human beingness. The given world of presentation seems to some discerning minds to have a built in natural law, and for others the laws of God are written upon the heart, yet human beings must choose for themselves and select their own faith or belief in given values and encounter the consequences of their decision for-themselves.

Existentialists are individuals with an unbiased phenomenological ontology. With freedom to choose what to win or lose, to attempt to be an become within the heterotic continuum moral values of virtually any moral system could acceptably be


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