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The life of modern man was frequently likened to the pilgrimage-through-time. The itinerary of pilgrims is drawn in advance by the destination they want to reach ... and everything they do is calculated to bring them closer to the goal. The pilgrim is consistent in choosing every successive step, conscious that each step matters and the sequence cannot be reversed. Today’s men and women can hardly treat their life as a pilgrimage, even if they wish to.... The life of the men and women of our [postmodern] times is more like that of the tourists-through-time: they cannot and would not decide in advance what places they would visit and what the sequence of stations would be; what they know for sure is that they will keep on the move, never sure whether the place they reach is their final destination [Bauman, 1994].
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Ten Have, H. (2000). The Zapping Animal: Oscillating Images of the Human Person in Modern Medicine. In: Tymieniecka, AT., Zalewski, Z. (eds) Life the Human Being between Life and Death. Analecta Husserliana, vol 64. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2081-6_11
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