Human beings are perpetual travellers who never truly settle anywhere

Evidence

For him, as for Jaspers, human beings were essentially vagabonds. We can never own anything, and we never truly settle anywhere, even if we stay in one place all our lives. As the title of one of his essay collections has it, we are always Homo viator — Man the Traveller. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 948

Categorization

• DEFINE: Marcel’s concept of ‘Homo viator’ defines human beings as essentially wayfarers, never fully settled or possessed.
• XREF: Homo viator pairs with Jaspers’ seascape in the preceding paragraph; both see the contingent, boundary-crossing condition as the core of human being. — connects to: Human existence is simultaneously bounded in every direction and in none — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 786; Human fulfillment lies in perpetual surpassing, never in attained rest — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 589; Humans cannot be described statically because humanity is constantly in the making — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 103 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Human existence is simultaneously bounded in every direction and in none #expands (0.85) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 786
• Human fulfillment lies in perpetual surpassing, never in attained rest #corroborates (0.80) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 589
• Humans cannot be described statically because humanity is constantly in the making #corroborates (0.75) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 103
• Cultures are never fixed or originary but constantly changed by movement and history #corroborates (0.70) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1204
• The present is a perpetual flight from being rather than a moment #corroborates (0.70) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 445