Saturday, March 30, 2013

Existentialism

Existentialism

Definition:

philosophical attitude associated especially with Heidegger, Jaspers, Marcel, and Sartre, and opposed to rationalism an empiricism, that stresses the individual's unique position as a self.

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To know my knowledge, no one has remarked on his existentialism.

Generally regarded as a founder of existentialism, he disliked the attribution.

 
Therefore, we are entitled to say that the idea of death constitutes the central theme of this deeply existential poetry.
 
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All About Philosophy
 
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    A movement in twentieth-century literature and philosophy, with some forerunners in earlier centuries. Existentialism stresses that people are entirely free and therefore responsible for what they make of themselves.  With this responsibility comes a profound anguish or dread.  It helps to let you learn what philosophy is and is not.  It's referred to as intellectual history.  It was associated with some help of esistentialist writers.
 
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