Thursday, September 24, 2009

Existentialism

Existentialism pursues the meaning in existence and seek values for the existing individuals. It emphasizes action, freedom, and decision as fundamental factors to human existence. Existential philosophy is the "explicit conceptual manifestation of an existential attitude" that begins with a sense of disorientation and confusion in the face of an apparently meaningless or absurd world.

Existentialists:
Soren Kierkegaard
Franz Kafla 
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Friedrich Nietzsche
Edmund Husserl
Martin Heidegger
Jean-Paul Sartre
Simone de Beauvoir
Albert Camus
Karl Jaspers

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