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The Courage to Be Is the Strength to Affirm Oneself
We all have an ideal project, and we are faced with guilt and condemnation when we fail to live up to our ideal. Courage is the strength to affirm one's own life in the phase of inevitable annihilation. The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning. This is how anxiety is dealt with. While stoicism espouses cosmic resignation, Christianity proposes cosmic salvation.