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Existential philosophy   /ˌɛgzˌɪstˈɛntʃəl fəlˈɑsəfi/   Listen
Existential philosophy

noun
1.
(philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves.  Synonyms: existentialism, existentialist philosophy.






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"Existential philosophy" Quotes from Famous Books



... is not given with the what. Hegel has ignored this distinction between the logical and the actual, has confused the rational and the real. Even the system of identity was merely rational, i.e., negative, philosophy, to which there must be added, as a second part, a positive or existential philosophy, which does not, like the former, rise to the highest principle, to God, but starts from this supreme ...
— History Of Modern Philosophy - From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time • Richard Falckenberg



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