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  2. Existence precedes essence - Wikipedia

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    Sartre's definition of existentialism was based on Heidegger's magnum opus Being and Time (1927). In the correspondence with Jean Beaufret later published as the Letter on Humanism , Heidegger implied that Sartre misunderstood him for his own purposes of subjectivism, and that he did not mean that actions take precedence over being so long as ...

  3. Being in itself - Wikipedia

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    In the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Being-in-itself is contrasted with the being of persons, which he terms Dasein.(Heidegger 1962, p. H.27) "Dasein means: care of the Being of beings as such that is ecstatically disclosed in care, not only of human Being...Dasein is itself by virtue of its essential relation to Being in general."

  4. Existential phenomenology - Wikipedia

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    Sartre synthesized Husserl and Heidegger's ideas. His modifications include his replacement of Husserl's concept, epoche , with Heidegger's structure of being-in-the -world . [ 9 ] His existential phenomenology, which is articulated in his works such as Being and Nothingness (1943), is based on the distinction between being-in-itself and being ...

  5. Letter on Humanism - Wikipedia

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    Heidegger responds to Sartre's famous address, Existentialism is a Humanism, employing modes of being in an attempt to ground his concept of freedom ontologically by distinguishing between being-in-itself and being-for-itself. Sartre's existentialism is criticized in the letter: Existentialism says existence precedes essence.

  6. Being and Nothingness - Wikipedia

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    Sartre attributed the course of his own philosophical inquiries to his exposure to this work. Though influenced by Heidegger, Sartre was profoundly skeptical of any measure by which humanity could achieve a kind of personal state of fulfillment comparable to the hypothetical Heideggerian "re-encounter with Being".

  7. Existentialism Is a Humanism - Wikipedia

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    In Heidegger's view, Sartre "Stays with metaphysics in oblivion of the truth of Being.". [ 6 ] Heidegger reportedly told Hubert Dreyfus that Sartre's work was "dreck." [ 7 ] Marjorie Grene found Sartre's discussion of "the problem of the relation between individuals" in Existentialism and Humanism to be weaker than the one he had previously ...

  8. Existential humanism - Wikipedia

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    Martin Heidegger attacked Sartre's concept of existential humanism in his Letter on Humanism of 1946, accusing Sartre of elevating Reason above Being. [5]Michel Foucault followed Heidegger in attacking Sartre's humanism as a kind of theology of man, [6] though in his emphasis on the self-creation of the human being he has in fact been seen as very close to Sartre's existential humanism.

  9. Facticity - Wikipedia

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    Facticity is a term that takes on a more specialized meaning in 20th century continental philosophy, especially in phenomenology and existentialism, including Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Theodor Adorno.