Existentialism vs Sensualism - What's the difference?
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(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.
Addiction to or obsession with sensual pleasures or affairs
(ethics) The doctrine that gratification of the senses is the highest good.
(epistemology) The doctrine that all knowledge not only originates in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism.
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As nouns the difference between existentialism and sensualism
is that existentialism is (philosophy|not countable) a twentieth-century philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices while sensualism is addiction to or obsession with sensual pleasures or affairs.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 .
Antonyms
* noumenalismsensualism
English
Noun
- He [Locke] repudiated any supposed dowry of original truths or innate or connate ideas, and endeavored to show how, by acting on the report of the senses and personal experience, the understanding arrives at all the ideas of which it is conscious. The mode of procedure in this case is empiricism; the result with Locke was sensualism,--more fully developed by Condillac, [18] in the next century.