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asystemofideasmadefamousby Jean Paul Sartre in the 1940s in which theworldhas nomeaningand eachpersonisaloneandcompletelyresponsiblefortheirownactions, by which they maketheirowncharacter
The book closes with an obligatory look at howexistentialismshows up in the more literate of the radicals of the 1960s.
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Theoretical perspectives concerning positive aspects of caring for elderly persons with dementia: stress/adaptation andexistentialism.
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The relation of a theory of knowledge based on indwelling has connections also withexistentialism.
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But what his critique omits is any consideration of the original philosophical target of deconstruction-as of theexistentialismthat so heavily influenced it.
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Existentialismis a way of thinking that places being as the source of knowing.
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Existentialismworks best for the young seeking autonomy - who are looking forward to endless time.
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Theorethical perspectives concerning positive aspects of caring for elderly persons with dementia : stress/adaptation andexistentialism.
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This commitment toexistentialismwas shared by the student wing of the civil rights movement and helped to bring the two groups together.
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The authors make ill-advised forays intoexistentialism, slightly off-the-wall therapeutic strategies for working with disturbed self-concepts and rather odd and idiosyncratic hypothesized structures for the self.
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It has largely been considered an individual project, because so many of those advocating certain pathways towards selfactualisation have been influenced by the radically individualistic ontology ofexistentialism.
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It is not logical positivism, it isexistentialismin government.
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As such, one's ethical prime directives are "action", "freedom", and "decision", thus,existentialismopposes rationalism and positivism.
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Coming of age tale touching on the raw emotions experienced during this time and the wider concepts of identity andexistentialism.
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Existentialismthus becomes part of the very ideology which it attacks, and its radicalism is illusory.
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It lies close to philosophy of culture, but has focus more onexistentialismand spiritualism.
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