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     self and exalt man despite 
     
     the situation he finds him- 
     
     self in. 
     
    

    
     These two examples of eX+ 
     
     istentiallifestyles bring‘ 
     
     out some of the ideas of 
     
     Viktor Frankl on mans' 
     
     search for meaning. Frankl 
     
     sees the search for mean- 
     
     ing from an existential 
     
     point of View. Man's ex- 
     
     istence precedes the ess- 
     
     ence he discovers, he is 
     
     free and responsible for 
     
     his actions. Frankl be— 
     
     lieves that every man 
     
     must find meaning in his 
     
     life, while Sartre claims 
     
     ‘we have to invent meaning 
     
     ‘without guidance or just- 
     
     ‘ifications. 
     
    

    
     Once meaning in life 
     
     has been found, morality. 
     
     then asserts itself. For 
     
     Frankl, being truly moral 
     
     is for the sake of one's 
     
     ultimate ideal. Looking 
     
     back at the examples of 
     
     Kierkegaard and Camus, one 
     
     can.see that this is 
     
     quite valid. Kierkegaard 
     
     found:meaning in God, and 
     
     his principles arose from 
     
     that belief, and transform— 
     
     ed his view of morality. 
     
     Thus morality is something 
     
     that gets its impulse from 
     
     the meaning one finds in 
     
     life. Without a basis for 
     
     mening there can be no mo- 
     
     rality. ' 
     
    

    
     Like the aquisition of 
     
     moral values, the choice 
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
    
   
   
    
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     of social commitment us- 
     
     ually rests on the mean- 
     
     ing one finds in life. 
     
     Having found meaning, 
     
     every man examines his 
     
     society and measures it 
     
     against what he believes 
     
     in. Should it violate or 
     
     contradict his ideals, 
     
     that man may decide to 
     
     try to change his society 
     
     and correct what is wrong 
     
     with it. If he decides to 
     
     take this step, he becomes 
     
    
   
   
    
     ,socially committed. The 
     
    
   
   
    
     character of his ideals 
     
     are crucial in determining 
     
     what form his social comm- 
     
     itment will take. Two ex— 
     
     amples of socially commit- 
     
     ted people are Karl Marx 
     
     and Martin Luther King. 
     
     Both Marx and King, though 
     
    
   
   
    
     they differ in most aspects 
     
    
   
   
    
     are men who have applied 
     
    
   
   
    
     their personal philosophies 
     
    
   
   
    
     to the social problems ar- 
     
     ound them. 
     
     In a previous paper I was 
     
    
   
   
    
     searching for "the most im— 
     
     portant thing", and I ended 
     
    
   
   
    
     up with the concept of God. 
     
     What I really did was to 
     
    
   
   
    
     conduct a somewhat simpli-g 
     
    
   
   
    
     fied search for meaning. 
     
     Having found the basis for 
     
     my philosophy of life, I 
     
     now want to elaborate 
     
    

    
     on it a little. 
     
    
   
   
    
     _ The atheist existential— 
     
    
   
   
    
     ists Sartre and Camus say 
     
     that there is no God and 
     
    
   
   
    
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     that the world is absurd 
     
    
   
   
    
     _just because man does not 
     
    
   
   
    
     fully understand it. 
     
    

    
     What they are doing is 
     
     simply reducing the world 
     
     to their level. Also the 
     
     atheist existentialists 
     
     are saying that the world 
     
     can only make sense with- 
     
     out God, take away God 
     
     and everything becomes 
     
     absurd. 
     
    

    
     It is for these reasons 
     
     that I reject their ass- 
     
     ertion that God does not 
     
     exist and that the world 
     
     is ultimately absurd. 
     
    

    
     The world may seem to be 
     
    
   
   
    
     iabsurd, but it is complet- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ely absurd only if one re- 
     
     jects God. But for the re— 
     
     jection of God. I am per— 
     
     fectly willing to accept 
     
     the existential View of 
     
     man within the framework 
     
     of a Christian belief in 
     
     God. To me the condition 
     
     of man on this earth can 
     
     be compared with the view 
     
     taken by Herbert Read: 
     
    
   
   
    
     In my metaphor, he is con- 
     
     demned to be adrift, and 
     
     he has to invent the ins— 
     
     truments by means of 
     
     which he can steer a cour— 
     
     se: having invented 
     
    

    
     these instruments, he 
     
    

    
     has to set out on a voy- 
     
     age of discovery...His 
     
     life, his existence, is y 
     
     the voyage: his reality is 
     
     the fact that he is moving 
     
     in a direction which he 
     
     himself has freely deter— 
     
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     faltered! 
     
    
   
   
    
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     again the Panther dream has 
     
     Beaten six to three by the 
     
     Saint Mary's Huskies, rated number one 
     
    
   
   
    
     in the nation, the Panthers failed in 
     
    
   
   
    
     Favour. 
     
    
   
   
    
     their quest for league supremacy in regu- 
     
    

    
     lar season play. The game was marked with 
     
     a multitude of Panther mistakes which the 
     
    

    
     Huskies were quick to capitalize on. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Perhaps goal tending made the difference 
     
     but lack of puck control by the Panthers 
     
     throughout the game thrawted many scor- 
     
     ing opportunities. The Panther Offence 
     
     showed plenty of hustle but lacked fin— 
     
     ese around the Huskie net, shots on goai 
     
     being thirty-eight to thirty—two in our 
     
     The team seemed quite nervous 
     
     for the "big game" but now that it's 
     
     'OVer our mistakes can be corrected and 
     
    

    
     a better showing is expected in the future. 
     
     He knew we can outskate, outshoot, and 
     
     outhustle Saint Mary's; next time we 
     
     will outscore them too!