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Revision as of 01:52, 7 April 2002 by The Anome (talk | contribs) (moved content in: here is better than a subpage, but these links probably don't belong here)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Existentialism is a philosophical movement primarily identified by common themes.
Primary amongst these themes is Sartre's notion that "existence precedes essence," which is generally taken to mean that there is no pre-defined moral or spiritual essence to humanity, except that which we make for ourselves.
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aesthetic Aristotelianism conceptualism Confucianism Daoism deconstruction deconstructionism determinism empiricism empiricist philosophy esthetic existentialism existentialist philosophy formalism idealism intuitionism logicism materialism mechanism mentalism naive realism nativism naturalism nominalism operationalism physicalism Platonism pragmatism probabilism rationalism realism realism relativism scholasticism semiotics sensationalism sensationalism sensualism solipsism Stoicism subjectivism Taoism teleology traditionalism vitalism