ex|is|ten|tial|ism

ex|is|ten|tial|ism
ex|is|ten|tial|ism «EHG zihs TEHN shuh lihz uhm, EHK sihs-», noun.
a philosophy holding that reality consists of living and that man makes himself what he is and is responsible personally only to himself for what he makes himself. Modern existentialism was developed by a group of contemporary writers, such as Gabriel Marcel, Karl Jaspers, and especially Jean Paul Sartre, out of the works of Sören Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, and other existentialist philosophers and writers of the 1800's. »

Existentialism, as expounded by Sartre, is not pessimistic in the nihilist sense, but is a doctrine of fortitude and even hope (New York Times).

[probably < French existentialisme]

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