existential
adj.
of existence; of or pertaining to existentialism (20th-century philosophical movement)
Existentialism
Existentialism is a
philosophical movement which claims that individual human beings create the meanings and essence of their own lives.It is a reaction against more traditional philosophies, such as
rationalism and
empiricism, which sought to discover an ultimate order in
metaphysical principles or in the structure of the observed world, and therefore universal meaning. The movement had its origins in the 19th century thought of
Kierkegaard and
Nietzsche and was prevalent in
Continental philosophy. In the 1940s and 1950s, French philosophers such as
Jean-Paul Sartre and
Simone de Beauvoir wrote scholarly and fictional works that helped to popularize themes associated with existentialism, including "dread, boredom, alienation, the absurd, freedom, commitment, [and] nothingness".
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existential
Adjective
1. derived from experience or the experience of existence; "the rich experiential content of the teachings of the older philosophers"- Benjamin Farrington; "formal logicians are not concerned with existential matters"- John Dewey
(synonym) experiential
(similar) empirical, empiric
2. of or as conceived by existentialism; "an existential moment of choice"
(pertainym) existentialism, existentialist philosophy
3. relating to or dealing with existence (especially with human existence)
(pertainym) being, beingness, existence
Existential
(a.)
Having existence.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Megarian, Stoic, animist, animistic, atomistic, cosmotheistic, eclectic, empirical, eudaemonistic, hedonic, hedonist, hedonistic, humanist, humanistic, idealistic, instrumentalist, materialistic, mechanistic, metaphysical, monistic, naturalistic, nominalist, panlogistical, pantheistic, positivist, positivistic, pragmatic, pragmatist, rationalistic, realist, realistic, scholastic, sensationalistic, syncretistic, theistic, transcendentalist, transcendentalistic, utilitarian, vitalistic, voluntarist, voluntaristic
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