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Existentialism is concerned with the human condition, the purpose of life, authenticity in one’s purpose and being, the attempt to find meaning amidst the absurdity and finitude of existence. Philosophers have asked how life can be meaningful in the face of the grave, and whether life matters.
Jan 11, 2016 · According to Soren Existentialism “is a rejection of all purely abstract thinking, of a purely logical or scientific philosophy; in short, a rejection of the absoluteness of reason” (Roubiczek,...
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Existentialism is the philosophy that recognizes this problem and attempts to address it. If you want to spruce up the description we start with, you might say that existentialism is the philosophy that makes an authentically human life possible in a meaningless and absurd world.
Like “rationalism” and “empiricism,” “existentialism” is a term that belongs to intellectual history. Its definition is thus to some extent one of historical convenience.
existentialism as ‘not a philosophy but a label for a set of widely different revolts against traditional philosophy’ and ‘not a school of thought nor reducible to any set of tenets’ (1956: 11).
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Notes to Existentialism. 1. Beauvoir recounts the story of the introduction of the word “existentialism” in her memoir The Force of Circumstance, suggesting it stemmed initially from a dispute between Sartre and Marcel in which Sartre rejected the label because it conveyed the sense of a philosophical system.
Existentialism is a catch phrase that describes all thinking that considers the human condition as a major philosophical problem. The root of existentialism as a trend in philosophy is traced to the Socratic dictum, “know thyself” .
