merely an epiphenomenon of cultural attitudes; it gives them shape and direction, creates them as well as expresses them. 3. Existential philosophy, perhaps like all philosophies, typically finds it- ,self going in circles, trying to prove axioms with theorems, converting premises into methodological rules, using repetition and restatement in place of argument and illustration in place of proof. Here “the individual” appears as a conclusion, there as the presupposition, and there again as I lie rule. The existential attitude finds itself in syndromes, interpreting a feeling as a mark of identity, converting an insight about oneself into an Interpretation of the world, resolving self-doubt by exaggerating the self in everything
