Abusive Parent: "Miracle Dad", even after learning the cost of healing magic, encourages his own daughter to use it at her expense. He later makes other people pay the price for her, but you can very well argue that encouraging her to murder other healers is just as abusive. At least he is is horrified when his younger daughter suddenly becomes a healer and accidentally kills herself in the climax. There is also a lot of religious apology. The Church of England is portrayed as out of touch but well meaning. It is even suggested that they support minorities despite not allowing gay marriages as well as there being well documented racist, homophobic and transphobic institutional bigotry to this very day. This portrayal is the major stand in for all religion. The only other representation of official religion is an American fundamentalist faith healer and even they are portrayed in the most forgiving light. While the American fundamentalist movement is notorious for bigotry this again is not represented in the story. Million to One Chance: Surprisingly averted. The ministry insists that the odds of someone being both a vampire and a healer are incredibly slim, as are the chances of this ability working at long range, as would have to be the case to explain every death via Adam's theory. While their alternative explanation turns out to be incorrect, they're right about this. The real culprit uses sleight-of-hand to make it seem as though they're actually healing someone when another person is really behind it, and one of the victims was killed by a completely unrelated being with vampiric powers. Sartre, Jean-Paul (1946). Existentialism is a Humanism . Retrieved 2010-03-08– via Marxists Internet Archive. Simone de Beauvoir, an important existentialist who spent much of her life as Sartre's partner, wrote about feminist and existentialist ethics in her works, including The Second Sex and The Ethics of Ambiguity. Although often overlooked due to her relationship with Sartre, [88] de Beauvoir integrated existentialism with other forms of thinking such as feminism, unheard of at the time, resulting in alienation from fellow writers such as Camus. [66]

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Some interpret the imperative to define oneself as meaning that anyone can wish to be anything. However, an existentialist philosopher would say such a wish constitutes an inauthentic existence – what Sartre would call " bad faith". Instead, the phrase should be taken to say that people are defined only insofar as they act and that they are responsible for their actions. Someone who acts cruelly towards other people is, by that act, defined as a cruel person. Such persons are themselves responsible for their new identity (cruel persons). This is opposed to their genes, or human nature, bearing the blame. Plesa, Patric (2021-07-14). "Reassessing Existential Constructs and Subjectivity: Freedom and Authenticity in Neoliberalism". Journal of Humanistic Psychology: 002216782110320. doi: 10.1177/00221678211032065. ISSN 0022-1678.

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Facticity is a limitation and a condition of freedom. It is a limitation in that a large part of one's facticity consists of things one did not choose (birthplace, etc.), but a condition of freedom in the sense that one's values most likely depend on it. However, even though one's facticity is "set in stone" (as being past, for instance), it cannot determine a person: the value ascribed to one's facticity is still ascribed to it freely by that person. As an example, consider two men, one of whom has no memory of his past and the other who remembers everything. Both have committed many crimes, but the first man, remembering nothing, leads a rather normal life while the second man, feeling trapped by his own past, continues a life of crime, blaming his own past for "trapping" him in this life. There is nothing essential about his committing crimes, but he ascribes this meaning to his past.

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Shout-Out: Multiple instances, continuing the trend that all of Yahtzee's works all occur in the same (or a very similar) universe. The term existentialism ( French: L'existentialisme) was coined by the French Catholic philosopher Gabriel Marcel in the mid-1940s. [11] [12] [13] When Marcel first applied the term to Jean-Paul Sartre, at a colloquium in 1945, Sartre rejected it. [14] Sartre subsequently changed his mind and, on October 29, 1945, publicly adopted the existentialist label in a lecture to the Club Maintenant in Paris, published as L'existentialisme est un humanisme ( Existentialism Is a Humanism), a short book that helped popularize existentialist thought. [15] Marcel later came to reject the label himself in favour of Neo-Socratic, in honor of Kierkegaard's essay " On the Concept of Irony". A more recent contributor to the development of a European version of existentialist psychotherapy is the British-based Emmy van Deurzen. [118] story is amazing. it's exactly the kind of humorous and thoughtful writing you can expect from Yahtzee Croshaw.

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Aho, Kevin (2023), Zalta, Edward N.; Nodelman, Uri (eds.), "Existentialism", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2023ed.), Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University , retrieved 2023-10-31 Copleston, F. C. (2009). "Existentialism". Philosophy. 23 (84): 19–37. doi: 10.1017/S0031819100065955. JSTOR 4544850. S2CID 241337492. Entry on Kojève in Martin Cohen (editor), The Essentials of Philosophy and Ethics (Hodder Arnold, 2006, p. 158).

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Yahtzee Croshaw plays tongue in cheek with murder mystery, the church and British spy novels while throwing in a dig at superheroes just because. Martin Heidegger, "Letter on Humanism", in Basic Writings: Nine Key Essays, plus the Introduction to Being and Time , trans. David Farrell Krell (London, Routledge; 1978), p. 208. Google Books. For an examination of the existentialist elements within the film, see Philosophy Now, issue 102, accessible here (link), accessed 3 June 2014.

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The world of The DEDA Files is now even richer than it already was, to the point I have headcanons and could very easily see it making a great TV series. I admit I wished for a little more Diablerie in this book. I'm almost embarrassed to admit how much I enjoy the antics of that egotistical, narcissistic, silent movie villain. He reminds me just a bit of Professor Trelawney in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. I want to learn to talk like him, but my friends would find me insufferable if I did. I'll have to put that off while any friends remain. There are exciting reveals about him in this book, but he is mostly absent. I'm guessing there will be much more of him in the next one. Dr. Diablerie's name is an allusion to the forbidden act of Diablerie from the World of Darkness universe (confirmed by Word of God).