Existentialism vs Phenomenology - What's the difference?
existentialism | phenomenology |
(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.
(philosophy) A philosophy based on the intuitive experience of phenomena, and on the premise that reality consists of objects and events as consciously perceived by conscious beings.
(philosophy) A movement based on this, originated about 1905 by .
As nouns the difference between existentialism and phenomenology
is that existentialism is a twentieth-century philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices while phenomenology is a philosophy based on the intuitive experience of phenomena, and on the premise that reality consists of objects and events as consciously perceived by conscious beings.existentialism
English
(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 .