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The important underlying distinction, as I understand it, is between concrete and abstract, the flight in question being precisely a flight from the first to the second. Thus one's immediate self-understanding in the moment – -- in face of one's unique encounters with others and one's fate or destiny – -- is to be distinguished from whatever one understands in general about human existence. To flee from "the problematic of one's own existence," etc., then, is to flee into some abstract understanding of existence in general, i.e., some world view, the while ignoring the concrete gift and demand of one's self-understanding here and now.

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