Examples of using Existentialist in English and their translations into Vietnamese
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How many Existentialists Does it take To screw in A light bulb?
Two Russian thinkers, Lev Shestov and Nikolai Berdyaev,became well known as existentialist thinkers during their post-Revolutionary exiles in Paris.
That is why existentialist philosophy always bears the stamp of personal experience, even in Heidegger.
Although existentialism is generally considered to have originated with Kierkegaard,the first prominent existentialist philosopher to adopt the term as a self-description was Jean-Paul Sartre.
Man, as conceived by the existentialist, if he is not definable, is not definable because he is, at first, nothing.
When he returned to the US, he entered Union Theological Seminary and became friends with one of his teachers,Paul Tillich, the existentialist theologian, who would have a profound effect on his thinking.
However, the concept has seen widespread use in existentialist writings, and the conclusions drawn from it differ slightly from the phenomenological accounts.
Existentialist philosophers often stress the importance of Angst as signifying the absolute lack of any objective ground for action, a move that is often reduced to a moral or an existential nihilism.
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What sets the existentialist notion of despair apart from the conventional definition is that existentialist despair is a state one is in even when they are not overtly in despair.
Sciences Po Paris's main campus is located in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés area of the capital,which was once the center of the existentialist movement associated with author Simone de Beauvoir and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.
Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and other existentialists use the word Angst, anxiety, to refer to the apprehension we feel as we move into the uncertainty of our future.
Some authors have pointed to similarities between the Buddhist conception of nothingness andthe ideas of Martin Heidegger and existentialists like Sartre, although this connection has not been explicitly made by the philosophers themselves.
Sartre posits the idea that"what all existentialists have in common is the fundamental doctrine that existence precedes essence", as scholar Frederick Copleston explains.
Guided by their own(57)_____ of knowledge and expertise, women like Marie Curie in science, Mary Wollstonecraft in literary writing,Simone de Beauvois in philosophical existentialist debate, and Marie Stopes, in medicine, to name a few, have brought about(58)_____ awareness of the role of women in any walks of life.
In his classic essay The Myth of Sisyphus, existentialist philosopher Albert Camus compared the punishment to humanity's futile search for meaning and truth in a meaningless and indifferent universe.
Although" prescriptions" against the possibly deleterious consequences of these kinds of encounters vary, from Kierkegaard's religious" stage" to Camus' insistence on persevering in spite of absurdity, the concern with helping people avoid living their lives in ways that put them in the perpetual danger of having everythingmeaningful break down is common to most existentialist philosophers.
The purpose of life therefore according to existentialist philosophy, is to create your own meaning and to bring it to fruition.
Conversely, other existentialist thinkers argue that human beings might be said to actively engage each other and the universe as they communicate and create, and loneliness is merely the feeling of being cut off from this process.
In the 1940s and 1950s, it was the center of the existentialist movement associated with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.
Atheists, nihilists, existentialists, and many conventional, traditional, and mainstream scientists belong to this category, which maintains that physical matter, as well as information and energy in the quantum realm, is all there is to reality.
Søren Kierkegaard andFriedrich Nietzsche were two of the first philosophers considered fundamental to the existentialist movement, though neither used the term"existentialism" and it is unclear whether they would have supported the existentialism of the 20th century.
Behaviorists, humanists, and existentialists all believe that(a) the motivations and problems that can be attributed to the unconscious are much fewer than Freud thought, and(b) the unconscious is not the great churning cauldron of activity he made it out to be.
For instance, the immense success of Sarah Bakewell's book, At The Existentialist Cafe, named one of the Top 10 books of 2016 by the New York Times, suggests a renewed appetite for existentialist ideas.
Some libertarian philosophers,such as William Irwin in The Free Market Existentialist(2015), have proposed variations of Rand's ideology that introduce some state control to protect people and their property from harm, force, fraud and theft(although he doesn't specifically support an environmental protection agency).
The rejection of reason as thesource of meaning is a common theme of existentialist thought, as is the focus on the feelings of anxiety and dread that we feel in the face of our own radical freedom and our awareness of death.