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| - Existentialism is a philosophy created by emos. Often confused with Nihilism, existentialism has been scientifically proven to produce really annoying people throughout the Southern United States. Think of someone who waves their wacky religious views in your face all the time. "Existence is meaningless!" They say loudly. They claim to be "philosophers" and "scientists," but we know that this is just a cover for their real identity, Napoleon Bonaparte and his bezoomy malchicks.
- Existentialism is a term applied to the work of a number of 19th- and 20th-century philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences, generally held that the focus of philosophical thought should be to deal with the conditions of existence of the individual person and his or her emotions, actions, responsibilities, and thoughts. The early 19th century philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, posthumously regarded as the father of existentialism, maintained that the individual solely has the responsibilities of giving one's own life meaning and living that life passionately and sincerely, in spite of many existential obstacles and distractions including despair, angst, absurdity, alienation, and boredom.
- Existentialism is the response to the soul-crushingly fatalistic, Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy-fostering worldview of Nihilism. For an Existentialist, sure the "meaning of life" is brutally Deconstructed as not being able to exist objectively and all our hopes are a cruel illusion, we Humans Are Flawed and there's nothing we can do about it, but then again each individual has the choice to make the most meaningful out of each hour of our lives — those who choose to spend it being bored, or following others, or wangsting endlessly are wasting it.
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| - Existentialism is the response to the soul-crushingly fatalistic, Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy-fostering worldview of Nihilism. For an Existentialist, sure the "meaning of life" is brutally Deconstructed as not being able to exist objectively and all our hopes are a cruel illusion, we Humans Are Flawed and there's nothing we can do about it, but then again each individual has the choice to make the most meaningful out of each hour of our lives — those who choose to spend it being bored, or following others, or wangsting endlessly are wasting it. Existentialism often advocates individuality and involves things like Be Yourself, Desperately Looking for a Purpose In Life, I Am What I Am, living out your Goal in Life, Earn Your Happy Ending, and sometimes moments of You Are Not Alone. This gives a world-of-cardboard/Patrick Stewart Speech to the nihilists and reconstructs the "meaning in life" concept. The term Existential Angst is even coined to describe the sudden feeling of Quicksand Box it gave them, especially if they had just abandoned the Freedom From Choice provided by both religion and social peer pressure. Existentialist character types include The Anti-Nihilist and The Ubermensch (the extreme Blue and Orange Morality version). The Knight in Sour Armor or Determined Defeatist have some elements of this. While existential motifs are Older Than You Think, Søren Kierkegaard, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche foreshadowed in the 19th century some of what would be the defining characteristics of the philosophy, although they didn't know each other and the philosophy was unnamed. The term "existentialism" seems to have been coined by the French philosopher Gabriel Marcel. It gained popularity in the early 1940s around the time of the Modernist movement (amidst scientific discoveries of large and downright weird things out there, which inspired Lovecraftian Fiction, and of course the horrors of World War Two), when Jean-Paul Sartre codified existential philosophy with three words: "Existence precedes essence." It was the reverse of most previous philosophical thought, which held that the essence (soul, purpose, meaning) of a thing came first. You'll find that many of the people held up as examples of existentialism indignantly claimed that they weren't -- probably a side-effect of the fact that noncomformity is one of the school's main tenets ("Once you label me, you negate me" is a famous line of Kierkegaard's). The Other Wiki has an article and analysis on the subject. Related to Absurdism, Post Modernism, Romanticism and Individualism.
- Existentialism is a philosophy created by emos. Often confused with Nihilism, existentialism has been scientifically proven to produce really annoying people throughout the Southern United States. Think of someone who waves their wacky religious views in your face all the time. "Existence is meaningless!" They say loudly. They claim to be "philosophers" and "scientists," but we know that this is just a cover for their real identity, Napoleon Bonaparte and his bezoomy malchicks. The existential movement is a cover for people who are so overpoweringly emo that they can't just be emo, they even make themselves feel alienated from chuck taylor all stars. This, as anyone who has worn a pair of the venerable chucks knows, is extremely hard to do, since they are so comfy. How can one be alienated from something so comfortable? Only they know.
- Existentialism is a term applied to the work of a number of 19th- and 20th-century philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences, generally held that the focus of philosophical thought should be to deal with the conditions of existence of the individual person and his or her emotions, actions, responsibilities, and thoughts. The early 19th century philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, posthumously regarded as the father of existentialism, maintained that the individual solely has the responsibilities of giving one's own life meaning and living that life passionately and sincerely, in spite of many existential obstacles and distractions including despair, angst, absurdity, alienation, and boredom. Subsequent existential philosophers retain the emphasis on the individual, but differ, in varying degrees, on how one achieves and what constitutes a fulfilling life, what obstacles must be overcome, and what external and internal factors are involved, including the potential consequences of the existence or non-existence of God. Many existentialists have also regarded traditional systematic or academic philosophy, in both style and content, as too abstract and remote from concrete human experience. Existentialism became fashionable in the post-World War years as a way to reassert the importance of human individuality and freedom.
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