EXISTENTIAL PHILOSOPHY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does existential philosophy mean? • EXISTENTIAL PHILOSOPHY (noun)
The noun EXISTENTIAL PHILOSOPHY has 1 sense:
1. (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves
Familiarity information: EXISTENTIAL PHILOSOPHY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• EXISTENTIAL PHILOSOPHY (noun)
Meaning:
(philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
existential philosophy; existentialism; existentialist philosophy
Hypernyms ("existential philosophy" is a kind of...):
philosophical doctrine; philosophical theory (a doctrine accepted by adherents to a philosophy)
Domain category:
philosophy (the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics)
Domain member category:
depersonalisation; depersonalization ((existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in a stupid social machine)
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