existentialist

Adjective
  1. Relating to or involving existentialism (synset 302735495)
    "existentialist movement"; "existentialist philosophy"; "the existentialist character of his ideas"
Noun
  1. A philosopher who emphasizes freedom of choice and personal responsibility but who regards human existence in a hostile universe as unexplainable (synset 110091345)
    is a type of: philosopher - a specialist in philosophy
    specific instances:
    • 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)
    same as: existential philosopher, existentialist philosopher

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