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Inserting the discourse within an existentialist framework, this paper examines our existence of interrupted realities through the lens of Kierkegaardian thoughts and also draws on Simone de Beauvoir’s “Qu’est-ce que l’existentialisme?” (1947). As we navigate a surrealist time of COVID-19 (ab)normal, the lingering pandemic has left an impact on a both societal and psychosocial level. With societies across the globe facing continuous restrictions, what happens to free will? De Beauvoir defines our raison d’être as the individual having reality “only through his engagement in the world”. In this period of limited individual freedom, can we still talk of free will and how shall we engage with this all-pervasive, rule-changing pandemic ‘New Normal’?
本文将话语插入到存在主义的框架中，通过克尔凯郭尔思想的镜头来审视我们被打断的现实的存在，并借鉴西蒙娜·德·波伏娃的“Qu 'est-ce que l 'existentialisme ?””(1947)。当我们度过COVID-19 (ab)正常的超现实主义时期时，持续的大流行对社会和心理社会层面都造成了影响。随着全球社会面临不断的限制，自由意志会发生什么?波伏娃将我们存在être的理由定义为个体“只有通过参与世界”才能拥有现实。在这个个人自由有限的时期，我们还能谈论自由意志吗?我们该如何应对这种无所不在、改变规则的大流行“新常态”?
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