Most existentialists did not want to be called existentialists. I am not sure we should call them a "phase", it sounds like a teenage mood.
However, what existentialists failed to insist on, is that the self is both creation and necessity, and that is due to our inscription in time. The self-creation stance would only be 100% true if we were plunged into philosophical health from birth. But we are not. Most people start reflecting on who they are later in life, AFTER they have engaged in existence for 1, 2, or 3 decades, thus displaying invisible patterns that create some element of necessity for who they are. So looking at the future, the self is created, but looking at the past, the self is inherited. Philosophical health is, in my view a crealectic between creation and deciphering of a personal destiny/pattern.
https://johnstokdijk538.substack.com/p/know-thyself
Most existentialists did not want to be called existentialists. I am not sure we should call them a "phase", it sounds like a teenage mood.
However, what existentialists failed to insist on, is that the self is both creation and necessity, and that is due to our inscription in time. The self-creation stance would only be 100% true if we were plunged into philosophical health from birth. But we are not. Most people start reflecting on who they are later in life, AFTER they have engaged in existence for 1, 2, or 3 decades, thus displaying invisible patterns that create some element of necessity for who they are. So looking at the future, the self is created, but looking at the past, the self is inherited. Philosophical health is, in my view a crealectic between creation and deciphering of a personal destiny/pattern.
Thanks for that - I continue learning from you 😊.