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It is not enough for man to be an ontological esse.
He needs existential completion, he needs, that is, to move in the direction of completion.
And the direction of that movement is determined by his perception of the truth about himself.
He must, consequently, exist as a self-perceived substantive, developing agent, or he does not exist as man.
Thus, it is no mystical intuition, but an analyzable conception to say that man and his tradition can `` fall out of existence ''.
This happens at the moment man loses the perception of moral substance in himself, of a nature that, in Maritain's words, is perceived as a `` locus of intelligible necessities ''.
An existentialist is a man who perceives himself only as `` esse '', as existence without substance.
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