existencialismo

existencialismo

A philosophic movement primarily associated with the mid-20th century, in part arising from phenomenology (see J. P. Sarte, M. Heidegger, K. Jaspers, A. Camus, etc. ) that insists that human beings have no essential purpose or nature, but simply exist, having the “terrible freedom” of arbitrary decision.

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