"The human being who identifies him/herself with the objectively existing world comes to construct a personality, a sense of self, that is, at base, fully dependent upon the ever-changing structures of temporal existence. The resulting lack of any sense of permanance, of autonomy, leads such an individual to experience anxieties of all kinds, and eventually to shun the mysterious and collectively meaningful patterns of human existence in favour of a private and stifling subjective context, in the confines of which life plays itself out in the absence of any greater plan or scheme."
- Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy
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