Logotherapy vs Existentialism - What's the difference?
logotherapy | existentialism |
(psychotherapy) A therapy that involves finding the meaning of one's life.
(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 logotherapy and existentialism
is that logotherapy is (psychotherapy) a therapy that involves finding the meaning of one's life while existentialism is (philosophy|not countable) a twentieth-century philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices.logotherapy
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(wikipedia logotherapy)Noun
(-)existentialism
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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 .
