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existential philosopher

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Noun1.existential philosopher - a philosopher who emphasizes freedom of choice and personal responsibility but who regards human existence in a hostile universe as unexplainable
philosopher - a specialist in philosophy


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As the influential American existential philosopher Jack Black explained in the educational film School of Rock, rock and roll is about "stickin' it to The Man.
Richard Niebuhr's classic book Christ and Culture (HarperCollins, 1986), whose last chapter is likewise titled, and to Danish existential philosopher Soren Kierkegaard's book Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments (Mercer, 1997), where this phrase originated.
The thoughts of Freud, Feuerbach, and the great twentieth-century existential philosophers are neatly expounded to pose the great "either-or": Is death a sign of life's absurdity or a vehicle of some larger meaning?
 
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