immanent and existential

“If the ‘point of the game, from the liberal perspective, is to maintain some minimal level of equality in the face of measurement, the ‘point’ of the game from the strategic perspective is to do the opposite. What justifies such hostility to fairness and equality? Perhaps ‘justify’ is the wrong word here, implying as it does that there is a higher normative principle at work. The competitive commitment towards winning and defeating is really an entirely immanent and existential one.” (William Davies, The Limits of Neoliberalism, p.67)