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Existentialism - Wikipedia
Existentialism (/ ˌ ɛ ɡ z ɪ ˈ s t ɛ n ʃ əl ɪ z əm /) is a tradition of philosophical inquiry associated mainly with certain 19th and 20th-century European philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences, shared the belief that philosophical thinking begins with the human subject—not merely the thinking subject, but the ...

Existentialism | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Existentialism. Existentialism is a catch-all term for those philosophers who consider the nature of the human condition as a key philosophical problem and who share the view that this problem is best addressed through ontology.

Existentialism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Like “rationalism” and “empiricism,” “existentialism” is a term that belongs to intellectual history. Its definition is thus to some extent one of historical convenience.

Existentialism | Definition, Nature, History, & Issues ...
Existentialism: Existentialism is a school of 20th-century philosophy that emphasizes the concreteness and problematic character of human existence.

Existentialism - Friesian School
Existentialism. WOODY ALLEN: That's quite a lovely Jackson Pollock, isn't it? GIRL IN MUSEUM: Yes it is. WOODY ALLEN: What does it say to you? GIRL IN MUSEUM: It restates the negativeness of the universe, the hideous lonely emptiness of existence, nothingness, the predicament of man forced to live in a barren, godless eternity, like a tiny ...

Sartre, Jean Paul: Existentialism | Internet Encyclopedia ...
The philosophical career of Jean Paul Sartre (1905-1980) focuses, in its first phase, upon the construction of a philosophy of existence known as existentialism. Sartre's early works are characterized by a development of classic phenomenology, but his reflection diverges from Husserl’s on ...

Angst - Wikipedia
Angst means fear or anxiety (anguish is its Latinate equivalent, and anxious, anxiety are of similar origin). The word angst was introduced into English from the Danish, Norwegian and Dutch word angst and the German word Angst.

Philosophical Dictionary: Erasmus-Extrinsic
Recommended Reading: Colin McGinn, Logical Properties: Identity, Existence, Predication, Necessity, Truth (Clarendon, 2001); Barry Miller, The Fullness of Being: A New Paradigm for Existence (Notre Dame, 2002); Jean-Paul Sartre, Truth and Existence, tr. by Adrian Van Den Hoven and Ronald Aronson (Chicago, 1995); and Emmanuel Levinas, Existence ...

Existentialism Philosophy: Discussion of Existentialist ...
Existentialism Philosophy: Discussion of Existentialist metaphysics and philosophy (how we exist) - existential philosophers pictures, quotes - Jean Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Karl Jaspers, Gabriel Marcel, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Merleau Ponty.

Existentialism Introduction—1
Existentialism Introduction—2 In the section “The Legacy of Existentialism” from our primary text, the editors suggest that some ideas seem now dated.