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    Commitment is essentially personal and accessible only th... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Secondary reflection is the appropriate mode of reflection for understanding commitment.

    Commitment is essentially personal and accessible only through a mode of reflection that preserves its personal character.

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    “How can I test the initial assurance that is somehow the ground of my fidelity? …this appears to lead to a vicious circle. In principle, to commit myself I must know myself, but the fact is I really only know myself when I have committed myself” (Marcel 1964, p. 163). However, what appears to be a vicious circle from an external point of view is experienced from within, by the person who is disponible, as a growth and an ascending. Reflection qua primary reflection attempts to make the experien

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