A philosophical attitude associated especially with Heidegger, Jaspers, Marcel, and Sartre, and opposed to rationalism and empiricism, that stresses the individual's unique position as a self-determining agent responsible for the authenticity of his or her choices.
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- Generally regarded as a founder of existentialism, he disliked the attribution.
- To my knowledge, no one has remarked on his existentialism.
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Basically Existentialism is the attitude that humans affect everything. In the above articles, both explain existentialism views and both have the same basis: No excuses! This theory is that, as humans, we cannot blame God or nature or anything else except for ourselves when something happens in our life. Particularly in the No Excuses article, the author speaks about the different philosophical individuals who deal with existentialism and he also poses the questions of existentialism: 1) What is life? 2) What is my place in it? 3) What choices does this obligate me to make?
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