ABSTRACT
The thinkers under discussion first take the spirit quite onesidedly as formal intellect, and then realize with great consternation that they are confronted with an extract of Dasein devoid of meaning, with the result that dread of the nothing emerge as the fundamental mood. The attempt to overcome despair is, as we know, to be found also in existential philosophy. Nevertheless, neither the philosophy of existence nor another consistent philosophy of finiteness in its present form can show that joy is a valid, unconditioned and real value like any other perfect thing such as an act of assistance, of charity, of fulfilment and so forth. The demand of existence is itself connected with a certain sense of value, in order to attain something extraordinary and to ascend to a more decisive form of human life of the daily round of trivialities.
