existentialist|existentialists in English

noun

[,ex·is'ten·tial·ist || ‚'egzɪ'stenʃəlɪst]

one who supports existentialism (20th-century philosophical movement stressing the subjective aspect of human existence and his responsibility for it)

Use "existentialist|existentialists" in a sentence

1. Does that make me an existentialist?

2. Appropriately, then, his philosophical view was called (existentialist) Absurdism.

3. 18 To an old fashioned existentialist, that's all that counts.

4. The existentialist school of thought views loneliness as the essence of being human.

5. One who is an Existentialist may also have the Angst from the realization of one's true freedom

6. Many existentialists have also regarded traditional systematic or academic philosophy, in both style and content, as too abstract and remote from concrete human experience.

7. Beauvoir is well-known all over the world as a famous existentialist philosopher, ideologist, litterateur,[Sentence dictionary] social activist and a spiritual leader of feminism.

8. 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.

9. According to atheist existentialists like Sartre, the “Absurdity” of human existence is the necessary result of our attempts to live a life of meaning and purpose in an indifferent, uncaring universe

10. Authenticity is a concept in psychology, existential psychiatry, existentialist philosophy and aesthetics.In existentialism, Authenticity is the degree to which a person's actions are congruent with their beliefs and desires, despite external pressures to conformity

11. Some authors have pointed to similarities between the Buddhist conception of nothingness and the ideas of Martin Heidegger and existentialists like Sartre, although this connection has not been explicitly made by the philosophers themselves.

12. ‘Absurdists can only laugh so long, until the horror paralyzes them.’ ‘It's a party comprised of anarchists, Absurdists, activists, practical jokers, perverts, weirdos, maniacs, oddballs, and morons.’ ‘His paranoid and nightmarish world became a gold mine for Freudians, existentialists, and Absurdists.’

13. Absurdism as a belief system was born of the Existentialist movement when the French philosopher and writer Albert Camus broke from that philosophical line of thought and published his manuscript The Myth of Sisyphus.

14. ‘Absurdists can only laugh so long, until the horror paralyzes them.’ ‘It's a party comprised of anarchists, Absurdists, activists, practical jokers, perverts, weirdos, maniacs, oddballs, and morons.’ ‘His paranoid and nightmarish world became a gold mine for Freudians, existentialists, and Absurdists.’

15. Theatre of the Absurd, dramatic work of certain European and American dramatists of the 1950s and early ’60s who agreed with the Existentialist philosopher Albert Camus’s assessment, in his essay ‘The Myth of Sisyphus,’ that the human situation is essentially Absurd, devoid of purpose.

16. Society’s inability to advance towards self-actualization despite catalytic acts of momentous individual sacrifice reflects an existentialist failure to create and preserve meaning, thus threatening to reduce humanity to a state of sub-existence.So little cause for Carolingsof such ecstatic soundWas written on terrestrial thingsAfar or nigh

17. Society’s inability to advance towards self-actualization despite catalytic acts of momentous individual sacrifice reflects an existentialist failure to create and preserve meaning, thus threatening to reduce humanity to a state of sub-existence.So little cause for Carolingsof such ecstatic soundWas written on terrestrial thingsAfar or nigh

18. Controversialist: 1 n a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy Synonyms: disputant , eristic Examples: show 47 examples hide 47 examples Simone de Beauvoir French feminist and existentialist and novelist (1908-1986) Henry Ward Beecher United States clergyman who was a leader for the abolition of slavery (1813-1887)

19. ‘Stravinsky was, in Adorno's opinion, evading existentialist man's duty to confront his own times in all their complexity and Atrociousness.’ More example sentences ‘In her autobiography she said curiosity had made her take the job, but 60 years on she admits she failed to let herself see the Atrociousness of the regime she worked for.’

20. Authenticity is a technical term used in psychology as well as existentialist philosophy and philosophy of art.In existentialism, Authenticity is the degree to which one is true to one's own personality, spirit, or character, despite external pressures; the conscious self is seen as coming to terms with being in a material world and with encountering external forces, pressures and influences

21. In other words, although elements of Balthazar's speech can be decoded as (Atheistically) existentialist in nature, it also includes a restatement of Christ's divinity, man's position as being made in the image of God, God's call that man should resemble him and the fact that Christ has come to redeem us, although it appears to narrow his death to an object lesson in knowing how to cope with suffering.

22. One feature that garnered initial interest in a French context (which propagated rather quickly to scholars of French literature and philosophy working in American universities) was Derrida's efforts to displace the understanding of Heidegger's work that had been prevalent in France from the period of the ban against Heidegger teaching in German universities, which amounts in part to an almost wholesale rejection of the influence of Jean-Paul Sartre and existentialist terms. In Derrida's view, deconstruction is a tradition inherited via Heidegger (the French term "déconstruction" is a term coined to translate Heidegger's use of the words "Destruktion" - literally "destruction" - and "Abbau" - more literally "de-building").