(March 19, 2022 at 11:36 am)Ahriman Wrote:No one disputes that people's circumstances and abilities differ, or that human power is subject to various constraints. The existentialists spent a lot of time talking about facticity, which is how they conceptualized the physical and cultural contexts of human endeavor. Simone De Beauvoir wrote:(March 19, 2022 at 10:51 am)brewer Wrote: Sorry, got to differ with you on genetics. You might need to consider those with genetic conditions that impact an individuals ability to perceive and mentally process environment/interactions and make choices. Many don't/can't make choices or processes that effect 'how should I live'.Yeah, this is true. Not everyone's free will is the same.
However, man does not create the world. He succeeds in disclosing it only through the resistance which the world opposes to him. The will is defined only by raising obstacles, and by the contingency of facticity certain obstacles let themselves be conquered, and others do not.
What you do with what the world does to you, in other words, is what defines you.
