Nicola Abbagnano Quotes on Freedom
Nicola Abbagnano was an Italian philosopher and the principal architect of what he called positive existentialism. This page collects quotes attributed to Nicola Abbagnano on the topic of freedom, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Nicola Abbagnano:
“Existence is possibility, not necessity.”
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Attributed to Nicola Abbagnano:
“Positive existentialism finds the openness of being a ground for hope, not despair.”
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Attributed to Nicola Abbagnano:
“What is possible for me defines what I am.”
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Attributed to Nicola Abbagnano:
“Every existence projects itself toward what it is not yet.”
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“Secularism should be considered as mutual autonomy not only between political and religious thought, but between all human activities, which must be subordinate to one another in a relationship of hierarchical dependence, nor can they be subject to ends or interests that are foreign to them, but must autonomously carry out their own purposes and internal rules. This corresponds, in the relationships between activities, to freedom in the relationships between individuals.”
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