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Existentialism vs. Phenomenology and the response to Hegelian Idealism
Absolute idealism was a huge part of Western culture but through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the greatest political movement took place. Marxism was this great political movement. The movement had an affect on theology and art. Jean-Paul Sartre, a continental philosopher who lived in the nineteenth century was an existentialist. Some of the main themes of extentialism are:
• Traditional and academic philosophy is sterile and remote from the concerns
of real life.
• Philosophy must focus on the individual in her or his confrontation with the
world.
• The world is irrational (or, in any event, beyond total comprehending or accurate conceptualizing through philosophy).
• The world is absurd, in the sense that no ultimate explanation can be given
for why it is the way it is.
• Senselessness, emptiness, triviality, separation, and inability to communicate
pervade human existence, giving......

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