Existentialism
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'''Existentialism''' is a [[philosophical movement]] in which individual human beings are understood as having full responsibility for creating the meanings of their own lives. It is a reaction against more traditional philosophies, such as [[rationalism]] and [[empiricism]], which sought to discover an ultimate order in [[metaphysics|metaphysical principles]] or in the structure of the observed world. The movement had its origins in the [[19th century]] thought of [[Soren Kierkegaard|Kierkegaard]] and [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzsche]] and was prevalent in [[Continental philosophy]] in the [[20th century]]. In the [[1940s]] and [[1950s]], French philosophers such as [[Jean-Paul Sartre]], [[Simone de Beauvoir]], and [[Albert Camus]] wrote scholarly and fictional works that helped to popularize themes associated with existentialism: [[angst]], [[boredom]], [[alienation]], the [[absurd]], [[freedom]], [[commitment]], [and] [[nothingness]]. | '''Existentialism''' is a [[philosophical movement]] in which individual human beings are understood as having full responsibility for creating the meanings of their own lives. It is a reaction against more traditional philosophies, such as [[rationalism]] and [[empiricism]], which sought to discover an ultimate order in [[metaphysics|metaphysical principles]] or in the structure of the observed world. The movement had its origins in the [[19th century]] thought of [[Soren Kierkegaard|Kierkegaard]] and [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzsche]] and was prevalent in [[Continental philosophy]] in the [[20th century]]. In the [[1940s]] and [[1950s]], French philosophers such as [[Jean-Paul Sartre]], [[Simone de Beauvoir]], and [[Albert Camus]] wrote scholarly and fictional works that helped to popularize themes associated with existentialism: [[angst]], [[boredom]], [[alienation]], the [[absurd]], [[freedom]], [[commitment]], [and] [[nothingness]]. | ||
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Existentialism is a philosophical movement in which individual human beings are understood as having full responsibility for creating the meanings of their own lives. It is a reaction against more traditional philosophies, such as rationalism and empiricism, which sought to discover an ultimate order in metaphysical principles or in the structure of the observed world. The movement had its origins in the 19th century thought of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and was prevalent in Continental philosophy in the 20th century. In the 1940s and 1950s, French philosophers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Albert Camus wrote scholarly and fictional works that helped to popularize themes associated with existentialism: angst, boredom, alienation, the absurd, freedom, commitment, [and] nothingness.
See also
- Existential despair
- Existential humanism
- Existentiell
- List of major thinkers and authors associated with Existentialism
- Lightness
- Meaning of Life
- I Heart Huckabees