NOUN | person | existentialist philosopher, existentialist, existential philosopher | a philosopher who emphasizes freedom of choice and personal responsibility but who regards human existence in a hostile universe as unexplainable |
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Meaning | A philosopher who emphasizes freedom of choice and personal responsibility but who regards human existence in a hostile universe as unexplainable. | |
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Synonyms | existentialist, existential philosopher | |
Instances | Beauvoir, Simone de Beauvoir | French feminist and existentialist and novelist (1908-1986) |
Camus, Albert Camus | French writer who portrayed the human condition as isolated / isolated in an absurd world (1913-1960) | |
Heidegger, Martin Heidegger | German philosopher whose views on human existence in a world of objects and on Angst influenced the existential philosophers (1889-1976) | |
Sartre, Jean-Paul Sartre | French writer and existentialist philosopher (1905-1980) | |
Broader | philosopher | A specialist in philosophy |
Spanish | existencialista | |
Catalan | existencialista |
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