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A 6 page paper which examines the existentialist view on the meaning of life. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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and time for art and philosophical and religious thoughts, the meaning of life became a powerful question that for many has yet to be answered. While those who are of
a particular religious faith may have a belief concerning the meaning of life, it is still a question that many ponder. Much philosophical thought has pondered just this reality. The
following paper examines the philosophical thought of existentialism, and discusses the meaning of life according to existentialist thought. The Meaning of Life: Existentialism Interestingly enough, the term existentialism
was a term that was actually "adopted as a self-description by Jean-Paul Sartre, and through the wide dissemination of the postwar literary and philosophical output of Sartre and his associates"
(Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). However, Sartre based his concepts on others before him, especially Heidegger who wrote Being and Time and focused on the concept that " being that we
ourselves are" (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). It is, however, interesting and important to understand that "Heidegger was deeply offended when he was linked with Sartre as one of the Existentialists,
and he publicly denounced the association" (Solomon). And, in addition, Sartre and Camus, once griends, argued publicly and rejected any association with one another and their ideas (Solomon). And
for those who would adopt the notion of existentialism it is important to note that their perspectives and faith in religion and God varied, thus indicating that the meaning of
life could not simply be found in God for some existentialists as some existentialists relied on a faith in God for the meaning of life. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
states the following in these regards: "Kierkegaard developed this problem in the context of his radical approach to Christian faith; Nietzsche did so in light of his thesis of the
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