Existentialism vs Subjectivism - What's the difference?
existentialism | subjectivism |
(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.
(metaphysics) The doctrine that reality is created or shaped by the mind.
(epistemology) The doctrine that knowledge is based in feelings or intuition
(ethics) The doctrine that values and moral principles come from attitudes, convention, whim, or preference.
As nouns the difference between existentialism and subjectivism
is that existentialism is a twentieth-century philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices while subjectivism is the doctrine that reality is created or shaped by the mind.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 .