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20 Th Century 19 Th Century
1,653 wordsExistentialism, philosophical movement or tendency, emphasizing individual existence, freedom, and choice, that influenced many diverse writers in the 19 th and 20 th centuries. Because of the diversity of positions associated with existentialism, the term is impossible to define precisely. Certain themes common to virtually all existentialist writers can, however, be identified. The term itself suggests one major theme: the stress on concrete individual existence and, consequently, on subjectiv...
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Civil Rights Laws U S Supreme Court
1,139 words1 In the Courts Discriminate Witte In the last ten years, the federal courts have turned away every claim for protection under the Constitution made by lesbians and gay men. If lesbians and gay men want protection from discrimination, the courts said, they should look to legislatures, governors, city councils the political branches not to the courts. To a very large extent, the movement for lesbian and gay rights has taken the courts at their word. The movement has gone to the political branches...
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Blaise Pascal Existentialist Themes
1,308 wordsExistentialism refers to the philosophical movement or tendency of the nineteenth and twenty th centuries. Because of the diversity of positions associated with existentialism, a precise definition is impossible; however, it suggests one major theme: a stress on individual existence and, consequently, on subjectivity, individual freedom, and choice { 3 }. Existentialism also refers to a family of philosophies devoted to an interpretation of human existence in the world that stresses its concrete...
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20 Th Century 19 Th Century
1,668 wordsExistentialism in the Early 19 th Century Major Themes Because of the diversity of positions associated with existentialism, the term is impossible to define precisely. Certain themes common to virtually all existentialist writers can, however, be identified. The term itself suggests one major theme: the stress on concrete individual existence and, consequently, on subjectivity, individual freedom, and choice. Moral Individualism Most philosophers since Plato have held that the highest ethical g...
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Rational Explanation Emotional Attachment
380 wordsMeursault, a young man living in Algiers, receives a report of his mother Madame Meursault's funeral. He attends her funeral, but he does not show any outward signs of appropriate grief. He returns to his home and immediately begins an affair with Marie Cardona, a former co-worker. After the weekend ends, he concludes that his mothers death has changed nothing. The banal rhythm of a Sunday afternoon remains exactly the same as it was before. He strikes up an acquaintance with Raymond Site, a loc...
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