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Inspiration for existentialist thinking can be traced all the way back to Plato’s teacher Socrates, born in the fifth century bce. Socrates was praised by Kierkegaard as a philosopher who did not abstract from the concrete existence of the one philosophizing.
Jul 28, 2023 · The history of humanistic and existential psychology: The possibility and cultural contexts of renewal in science
- Frederick Wertz
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The first to bring existential-phenomenological psychology into the U.S. seems to be the esteemed therapist Rollo May.29, 36, 41-45. May began applying the ideas of many of the existential thinkers mentioned above to his therapeutic sessions and found that this approach to therapy worked well for his clients.
Nov 6, 2017 · Existentialism arose in the 19th century as a philosophical countermovement to perspectives prioritizing universal human essences over the uniquely situated nature of each human existence. Two schools of existential thought—the dialectical-psychological and cultural-phenomenological —have exerted divergent influence on the contemporary ...
In the twentieth century, existentialism referred to the German school of phenomenology, which was founded by Edmund Husserl (1859–1938) and continued and transformed by Martin Heidegger (1889–1976).
This book argues for a precise conceptualization of existentialism grounded in the definition it was given by Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre when the term was first popularized. Existentialism is therefore defined as the ethical theory that we ought to treat the freedom at the core of human existence as intrinsically valuable and the ...
Existentialism The term 'existentialism' was officially coined by Gabriel Marcel in 1943 and is often reserved for the works of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, who used it to refer to their own philosophies in the mid-1940s.
