Title: Existentialism Wikis
1Existentialism Wikis
- Drew Murrell
- Kelsey Sawyer
- Sahil Shah
- McKenzie Cone
2Jean-Paul Sartre
3Summarization
- Existentialism is like the terms rationalism and
empiricism, they belong to intellectual history
and is one of historical convenience.
Existentialism was adopted by Jean-Paul Sartre.
Existentialism became classified with cultural
movement that thrived in Europe in the 1940s and
1950s. Major philosophers included Karl Jaspers,
Martin Heidegger, Martin Buber, Jean Wahl,
Gabriel Marcel, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Miguel de
Unamuno, and the Russians Nikolai Berdyaev and
Lev Shestov. In the nineteenth century,
philosophers found existentialism to be a
literary phenomenon as much as a philosophical
one. By the middle of the 1970s, the literary
image of existentialism had become a cliché
because of the infinite books and movies produced
by Woody Allen. Because of this, existentialism
was suggested to be a bygone cultural movement
opposed to an individual philosophical point. In
other words, they believed that the term
existentialism should only be subjected to
Sartres philosophy. However, the notion of
existentialism does choose an idiosyncratic group
of philosophical obstacles and helpfully
categorizes a relatively distinct current of
twentieth and twenty-first century philosophical
investigation. This has had major impacts of
theology and psychology. Ultimately, human beings
cannot be fully understood through a series of
sciences including physics, biology, psychology,
and others. Subjects such as, blame,
responsibility, character, duty, and virtue do
capture essential features of the human condition
but moral or scientific thinking are not adequate
enough. Finally, existentialism is essential in
grasping human subsistence. There is a need to
find a new framework for the themes of dread,
boredom, alienation, the absurd, freedom,
commitment, and nothingness to discover their
philosophical importance.
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5Definition
- Existentialism is the difference between human
existence and non-living objects. Some elements
of existentialism are dread, boredom, alienation,
absurdity, freedom, commitment, and nothingness
6Elements and Examples of Existentialism
- Human existence and nonliving objects
- Dread
- Boredom
- Alienation
- Absurdity
- Freedom
- Commitment
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Jared. "Napoleon Dynamite." Film Listings. The
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