existentialism
n. 20th-century philosophical movement stressing the subjective aspect of human existence and man's responsibility for it | ||||
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Existentialism Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
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existentialism
Noun
1. (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves
(synonym) existentialist philosophy
(hypernym) philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory
(classification) philosophy
(class) depersonalization, depersonalisation
Noun
1. (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves
(synonym) existentialist philosophy
(hypernym) philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory
(classification) philosophy
(class) depersonalization, depersonalisation
Existentialism Definition from Arts & Humanities Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Existentialism, religious
God is a dimension of quality of existence (or being, reality, etc.). "The ultimate of the act of faith and the ultimate that is meant in the act of faith are one and the same" (Tillich). God is your participation in the ground or depth of your own being. Faith is not a kind of knowledge. Knowing is confined to science. "Faith is the total and centered act (commitment) of the personal self" (Tillich). Except for assertions like "God is Being Itself," all assertions about God are symbolic, including the assertion "God is dead." Statements about God are about your experience and relation to existence (or being). For example, "God exists" means "I experience a depth in my being when I respond to reality with ultimate concern" (Tillich). It says "Religion is man's response to ultimate concerns in terms of the ultimate" (Tillich).
God is a dimension of quality of existence (or being, reality, etc.). "The ultimate of the act of faith and the ultimate that is meant in the act of faith are one and the same" (Tillich). God is your participation in the ground or depth of your own being. Faith is not a kind of knowledge. Knowing is confined to science. "Faith is the total and centered act (commitment) of the personal self" (Tillich). Except for assertions like "God is Being Itself," all assertions about God are symbolic, including the assertion "God is dead." Statements about God are about your experience and relation to existence (or being). For example, "God exists" means "I experience a depth in my being when I respond to reality with ultimate concern" (Tillich). It says "Religion is man's response to ultimate concerns in terms of the ultimate" (Tillich).
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Existentialism
1914 philosophical theory concerned with the being of individuals in a meaningless universe - of some influence to artist movements
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1914 philosophical theory concerned with the being of individuals in a meaningless universe - of some influence to artist movements
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Existentialism Definition from Society & Culture Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Existentialism
A philosophical movement stressing individual responsibility for creating one's ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving.
A philosophical movement stressing individual responsibility for creating one's ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving.
Existentialism Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Existentialism
Existentialism is a philosophical movement which claims that individual human beings create the meanings and essence 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, and therefore universal meaning. The movement had its origins in the 19th century thought of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and was prevalent in Continental philosophy. In the 1940s and 1950s, French philosophers such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir wrote scholarly and fictional works that helped to popularize themes associated with existentialism, including "dread, boredom, alienation, the absurd, freedom, commitment, [and] nothingness".
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