Geoff Johnson: As Sartre told us: We are our choices
We discussed and most significantly misunderstood the complex existentialist philosophies of Kierkegaard, Sartre and that high priest of the examination of the angst of lived existence, Martin Buber. Buber was in the news at the time because a federal senator, not having read Buber’s treatise on the individual’s responsibility to others Between Man and Man, apparently thought it was some kind of instructional handbook and sought to have it banned from Australia. Mind you, this was the same kind of political insight which sought to ban Enid Blyton’s books from school libraries because...
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