Determinism vs Existentialism - What's the difference?
determinism | existentialism |
(ethics) The doctrine that all actions are determined by the current state and immutable laws of the universe, with no possibility of choice.
(computing) The property of having behavior determined only by initial state and input.
(philosophy, not countable) A twentieth-century philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices.
(philosophy, countable) The philosophical views of a particular thinker associated with the existentialist movement.
* 1965 , Mikel Dufrenne, "Existentialism and Existentialisms," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research , vol 26 no 1 (Sep), p. 51.
As nouns the difference between determinism and existentialism
is that determinism is the doctrine that all actions are determined by the current state and immutable laws of the universe, with no possibility of choice while existentialism is a twentieth-century philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices.determinism
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* fatalismAntonyms
* indeterminismSee also
* compatibilism * incompatibilismexistentialism
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(wikipedia existentialism)Noun
(en noun)- The heyday of existentialism occurred in the mid-twentieth century.
- Sartre's existentialism''' is atheistic, but the '''existentialism of Marcel is distinctly Christian.
- Instead of Existentialism', we should speak of ' Existentialisms .
