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1. Existential Dread

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   The formal articulation of existential dread is usually traced to the 19th-century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, particularly in his work The Concept of Anxiety. Kierkegaard positioned anxiety (or dread) not as fear of a specific object, but as the dizziness of freedom—the terrifying realization of infinite possibility in the absence of preordained structure. For Kierkegaard, this dread was inextricably linked to the concept of sin and the leap of faith required to move beyond it.
   Later 20th-century phenomenologists, notably [Martin He…

2. Siddhartha Gautama

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   An Old Man: The realization of universal aging.
   A Sick Man: The comprehension of universal illness.
   A Corpse: The inescapable reality of death.
   An Ascetic: The sight of a serene renunciate, which suggested a possible path beyond suffering.