Existentialist Ideology
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An Existentialist Ideology is a philosophical doctrine that models the consequences of free human choice in a meaningless universe.
- Context:
- It can (typically) include an Existentialist Belief System.
- It can be held by an Existentialist with an Existentialist Practice.
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- Example(s):
- Counter-Example(s):
- Stoic Practice.
- Determinism.
- Consequentialism (such as utilitarianism).
- Nihilism.
- See: Moral Philosophy, Existential Nihilism.
References
2013
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism
- Existentialism is a term applied to the work of certain late 19th- and 20th-century philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences,[1][2][3] shared the belief that philosophical thinking begins with the human subject — not merely the thinking subject, but the acting, feeling, living human individual.[4] In existentialism, the individual's starting point is characterized by what has been called "the existential attitude", or a sense of disorientation and confusion in the face of an apparently meaningless or absurd world.[5] Many existentialists have also regarded traditional systematic or academic philosophies, in both style and content, as too abstract and remote from concrete human experience.[6][7]
Søren Kierkegaard is generally considered to have been the first existentialist philosopher, [8][9] though he did not use the term existentialism. He proposed that each individual — not society or religion — is solely responsible for giving meaning to life and living it passionately and sincerely ("authentically").[10][11] Existentialism became popular in the years following World War II, and strongly influenced many disciplines besides philosophy, including theology, drama, art, literature, and psychology.[12]
- Existentialism is a term applied to the work of certain late 19th- and 20th-century philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences,[1][2][3] shared the belief that philosophical thinking begins with the human subject — not merely the thinking subject, but the acting, feeling, living human individual.[4] In existentialism, the individual's starting point is characterized by what has been called "the existential attitude", or a sense of disorientation and confusion in the face of an apparently meaningless or absurd world.[5] Many existentialists have also regarded traditional systematic or academic philosophies, in both style and content, as too abstract and remote from concrete human experience.[6][7]
- ↑ Template:Cite encyclopedia
- ↑ John Macquarrie, Existentialism, New York (1972), pp. 18–21.
- ↑ Oxford Companion to Philosophy, ed. Ted Honderich, New York (1995), p. 259.
- ↑ John Macquarrie, Existentialism, New York (1972), pp. 14–15.
- ↑ Robert C. Solomon, Existentialism (McGraw-Hill, 1974, pp. 1–2).
- ↑ Ernst Breisach, Introduction to Modern Existentialism, New York (1962), p. 5.
- ↑ Walter Kaufmann, Existentialism: From Dostoyevesky to Sartre, New York (1956) p. 12.
- ↑ Marino, Gordon. Basic Writings of Existentialism (Modern Library, 2004, p. ix, 3).
- ↑ Template:Cite encyclopedia
- ↑ Watts, Michael. Kierkegaard (Oneworld, 2003, pp.4-6).
- ↑ Lowrie, Walter. Kierkegaard's attack upon "Christendom” (Princeton, 1969, pp. 37-40).
- ↑ Guignon and Pereboom, Derk, Charles B. (2001). Existentialism: basic writings. Hackett Publishing. p. xiii. ISBN 9780872205956. http://books.google.com/?id=NSvRzPye-gEC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=psychoanalysis&f=false.
2001
- (Solomon, 2001) ⇒ Robert C. Solomon. (2001). “From Rationalism to Existentialism: The existentialists and their nineteenth-century backgrounds."
1987
- (Solomon, 1987) ⇒ Robert C. Solomon. (1987). “From Hegel to Existentialism." Oxford University Press.
1974
- (Solomon, 1974) ⇒ Robert C. Solomon, ed. (1974). “Existentialism."
1972
- (Solomon, 1972) ⇒ Robert C. Solomon, ed. (1972). “Phenomenology and Existentialism." Rowman & Littlefield.
1946
- (Sartre, 1946) ⇒ Jean-Paul Sartre. (1946). “Existentialism is a Humanism / L'existentialisme est un humanisme."
1943
- (Sartre, 1943) ⇒ Jean-Paul Sartre. (1943). “Being and Nothingness / L'être et le néant."