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EXISTENTIALIST PHILOSOPHER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A philosopher who emphasizes freedom of choice and personal responsibility but who regards human existence in a hostile universe as unexplainable
Synonyms:
existential philosopher; existentialist; existentialist philosopher
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("existentialist philosopher" is a kind of...):
philosopher (a specialist in philosophy)
Instance hyponyms:
Beauvoir; Simone de Beauvoir (French feminist and existentialist and novelist (1908-1986))
Albert Camus; Camus (French writer who portrayed the human condition as isolated in an absurd world (1913-1960))
Heidegger; Martin Heidegger (German philosopher whose views on human existence in a world of objects and on Angst influenced the existential philosophers (1889-1976))
Jean-Paul Sartre; Sartre (French writer and existentialist philosopher (1905-1980))
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