@Enzyme
I was massively oversimplifying things... And to be fair, I studied Existentialism a while back... Basicaly I beleive that Sartre at one point in one of his texts refers to a feeling of anxiety and such at a cliff edge, and attributes it to the fact that at that point he is faced with a very real choice, as opposed to most choices that we apparently make - either to jump off or not - and this choice would have a very real effect on the progress of his life. Given that this is in essence a true existential choice - the anxiety he atrributed to existential angst - the fear of making such a choice for good or ill. Meh. I might be wrong in my understanding. As I said, It's been a while and it wasn't exactly a major point in my study
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Fri 13 Feb 2009, 13:29, Reply)