“Before you come alive, life is nothing; it’s up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose. In that way, you see, there is a possibility of creating a human community” (60).
2007-04-19 14:13:54 · 4 answers · asked by misaac2007 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
In the camps people lived each day for itself and if you were alive at the end of it you acheived a certain happiness despite the circumstances. By living with the knowledge of death happening soon they learned to really live each day and every hour as it could be thier last as it had for so many others. By doing so they acheived the lasting knowledge that they can survive despite all the odds and brought that to each community they lived in after that.
2007-04-19 14:19:44 · answer #1 · answered by elaeblue 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Creating a human(e) community is possible when you decide that it has some value in (y)our life, that it is making it better for all of us.
2007-04-19 21:29:12 · answer #2 · answered by ashvata 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It reminds me of the book "Beyond Good and Evil" but I can't remember the book its self nor who wrote it. The philosophy I infer from your sample passage is existentialism; "I" or we are the creation of your/our choices, but that is a little too simplistic to represent the existential totality...I seem to remember contents of this book references the holocaust....No, that book was way before nazi germany.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Good_and_Evil
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=nietzsche+beyond+good+and+evil&rs=1&fr2=rs-bottom&ei=UTF-8&fr=ush-ans
2007-04-19 21:48:10 · answer #3 · answered by Psyengine 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
don't know, heard similar context of reasoning, but why do you think it's from the holocaust? sounds quasi religious, but not specific to any time period to me.
2007-04-19 21:19:49 · answer #4 · answered by edjdonnell 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋