exigence

• Thus, ontological exigence is a need and a demand for some level of coherence in the cosmos and for some understanding of our place and role within this coherence. —  Gabriel (-Honoré) Marcel
• Note that, for Marcel, ontological exigence is not merely a —  Gabriel (-Honoré) Marcel
• And that the pleasurable sensations arising from these secretions may constitute the unnamed pleasure of exigence, which is contrary to what is meant by tedium vitć, or ennui; and by which we sometimes feel ourselves happy, without being able to ascribe it to any mental cause, as after an agreeable meal, or in the beginning of intoxication Now it would appear, that no secretion or excretion of fluid is attended with so much agreeable sensation, as that of the semen; and it would thence follow, that the glands, which perform this secretion, are more likely to be much affected by their catenations with pleasurable sensations. —  Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
• Ontological exigence, the need for transcendence, is linked to a certain dissatisfaction — one that is all the more troubling because one is unable to soothe this dissatisfaction by one's own powers. —  Gabriel (-Honoré) Marcel
• And that the pleasurable sensations arising from these secretions may constitute the unnamed pleasure of exigence, which is contrary to what is meant by tedium vitæ, or ennui; and by which we sometimes feel ourselves happy, without being able to ascribe it to any mental cause, as after an agreeable meal, or in the beginning of intoxication. —  Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life

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