EXISTENTIALISM

Existentialism

Existentialism is a term applied to the work of certain late 19th- and 20th-century philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences, shared the belief that philosophical thinking begins with the human subject—not merely the thinking subject, but the acting, feeling, living human individual. In existentialism, the individual's starting point is characterized by what has been called "the existential attitude", or a sense of disorientation and confusion in the face of an apparently meaningless or absurd world. Many existentialists have also regarded traditional systematic or academic philosophies, in both style and content, as too abstract and ...

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existentialism

Noun

  1. A twentieth-century philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices.
    The heyday of existentialism occurred in the mid-twentieth century.
  2. The philosophical views of a particular thinker associated with the existentialist movement.
    Sartre's existentialism is atheistic, but the existentialism of Marcel is distinctly Christian.


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