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Definition of 'Commitment'

Commitment is the virtue of being engaged in the world. Some merely exist or go with the flow or blow with the wind.

Committment is the experience of being 'answerable' or making oneself answerable of taking it upon yourself to respond(1)

References

Comte-Sponville, Andre (1996) A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues, New York: Henry Holt and Company

Notes

1. George Myerson, 101 Key ideas Existentiallism, Page 22