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Noun(1) (philosophy(2) (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement(3) assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves

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(1) As a philosopher she reacted to existentialism and logical positivism with a deep belief that philosophy should be about freedom and morality and love and God.(2) The episode is heavy on action and detective work, light on philosophy and existentialism .(3) The philosophy of existentialism affected and changed the attitude of the Western community to suicide greatly.(4) Here, existentialism belied the positivist socio-political attitudes of the official regimes and motivated political opposition.(5) He read deeply on the subject of existentialism , having long conversations with Jean-Paul Sartre.(6) The argument was directed at the individualist ontology of existentialism in favour of a more communitarian one.(7) This time they look not to Judeo-Christian lore, but to Nietzsche and existentialism .(8) Although he is indeed a co-father of existentialism with Kierkegaard, for some reason he has not generally been acknowledged as such.(9) He published On Humanism, a letter to Beaufret in which he distanced his own philosophy from French existentialism .(10) The next three chapters examine the religious existentialism of Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche.(11) I remember back in summer, when I was taking my course in existentialism , we discussed the topic of death.(12) How one might convert the insights of Sartre's existentialism into a guide for action, however, is not at all obvious.(13) Marx may be described as a humanist, and in this century humanism has been given expression, in both secular and religious forms, in the philosophy of existentialism .(14) The non-Christian version of existentialism is attributable to Martin Heidegger and Jean Paul-Sartre.(15) As much as fascism, Nietzsche foreshadowed modernism, existentialism and postmodernism.(16) It is full of those little moments of impotency, existentialism and half-baked philosophical epiphanies that happen to us all.