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    EXISTENTIALIST PHILOSOPHER

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A philosopher who emphasizes freedom of choice and personal responsibility but who regards human existence in a hostile universe as unexplainableplay

    Synonyms:

    existential philosopher; existentialist; existentialist philosopher

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    Hypernyms ("existentialist philosopher" is a kind of...):

    philosopher (a specialist in philosophy)

    Instance hyponyms:

    Beauvoir; Simone de Beauvoir (French feminist and existentialist and novelist (1908-1986))

    Albert Camus; Camus (French writer who portrayed the human condition as isolated in an absurd world (1913-1960))

    Heidegger; Martin Heidegger (German philosopher whose views on human existence in a world of objects and on Angst influenced the existential philosophers (1889-1976))

    Jean-Paul Sartre; Sartre (French writer and existentialist philosopher (1905-1980))

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