<p>ABSTRACT. Human existence shows that there are self-tension and identity crisis. This background displays that<br />humans have been searching for the answers to their essence and meanings for their own existence. There is a<br />paradoxical phenomenon in the lives of humans. On one hand, humans have made effort to fulfill their needs and<br />tendencies through all of their artificially earned achievements and attributes. On the other hand, the various<br />forms of existential realization have created existential tension. Human existence shows a dilemmatic relaity.<br />Humans have caused for their own self-alienation. Why does this human existensial paradoxical phenomenon has<br />to occur? Critical Realism Method used in this qualitative study made effort to answer this central question by<br />revealing the human ontological-existential image based on the dialogical-critical review on Martin Buber and<br />Martin Heidegger’s philosophical thoughts. The result of this study emphasizes on human’s relational “Top Ten”,<br />which eventually leads to the basic principles of “Trias Entitas” as the identity for each human existence.</p>
External Observation of Democratic Legal Studies Association for its 20 Year Anniversary: A Critical Review of the Identity Crisis of an Association for an Ideology