Existentialism Definition

ĕgzĭ-stĕnshə-lĭzəm, ĕksĭ-
noun
A philosophical and literary movement, variously religious or atheistic, stemming from Kierkegaard and represented by Sartre, Heidegger, etc.: it is based on the doctrine that concrete, individual existence takes precedence over abstract, conceptual essence and holds that human beings are totally free and responsible for their acts and that this responsibility is the source of their feelings of dread and anguish.
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(philosophy, countable) The philosophical views of a particular thinker associated with the existentialist movement.

Sartre's existentialism is atheistic, but the existentialism of Marcel is distinctly Christian.
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Synonyms:
  • existentialist philosophy
  • existential philosophy

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Noun

Singular:
existentialism
Plural:
existentialisms

Origin of Existentialism

Existentialism Sentence Examples

  • At the moment the Sartre list is reading existentialism and Humanism together.

  • The play was a political revue sketch, padded with Existentialism to confuse the censors.

  • Sartre has the point of view that is called Atheistic existentialism, which puts the emphasis on the individual instead of society.

  • Several eminent thinkers at the time, including Jean Wahl, dismissed Sartrean existentialism as a manifestation of this.

  • Thus he creates his religious existentialism as a philosophy of multiplicity and emancipation from knowledge, morality and rules of mind and action.

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