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Existentialism is a movement within continental philosophy that developed in the late 19th and 20th centuries. As a loose philosophical school, some persons associated with existentialism explicitly rejected the label (e.g. Martin Heidegger ), and others are not remembered primarily as philosophers, but as writers ( Fyodor Dostoyevsky ) or ...
For Marcel, philosophy was a concrete activity undertaken by a sensing, feeling human being incarnate—embodied—in a concrete world. [76] [78] Although Sartre adopted the term "existentialism" for his own philosophy in the 1940s, Marcel's thought has been described as "almost diametrically opposed" to that of Sartre. [76]
Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy is a 1958 book by the philosopher William Barrett, in which the author explains the philosophical background of existentialism and provides a discussion of several major existentialist thinkers, including Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, and Jean-Paul Sartre.
Abandonment, in philosophy, refers to the infinite freedom of humanity without the existence of a condemning or omnipotent higher power.Original existentialism explores the liminal experiences of anxiety, death, "the nothing" and nihilism; the rejection of science (and above all, causal explanation) as an adequate framework for understanding human being; and the introduction of "authenticity ...
Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism (L'existentialisme est un humanisme) 1946 lecture; Engels, Schelling's Revelation, 1841, in MECW Volume 2, p. 181ff; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, article Existentialism; Wilhelmsen, Frederick (1970). The Paradoxical Structure of Existence. Irving, Texas; University of Dallas Press.
This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. A. Atheistic existentialism (2 P) E. ... Existential phenomenology; Philosophy of dialogue;
Types of existentialism (4 C, 12 P) W. Works about existentialism (6 C, 13 P) Pages in category "Existentialism" ... The Void (philosophy) This page was last ...
So Wikipedia should be edited with existentialism in mind. You can toil for hours and only receive 20 criticisms. You can toil for a second and receive more than 20 compliments. But do those criticisms or those compliments mean anything? So we have to consider priorities and pragmatism, rather than idealism. Results and ethics are our only hope.