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date: '2024-02-29'
description: existential crises,angst, courage, and ultimate freedom
id: Existentialism
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  - '[[thoughts/Camus#absurd freedom|absurdism]]'
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title: Existentialism
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the conceptual groundwork of the movement was also laid by twentieth-century German philosophers like Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, and Karl Jaspers as well as prominent Spanish intellectuals José Ortega y Gasset and Miguel de Unamuno.

- 19th century: Søren Kierkegaard, [[thoughts/Philosophy and Nietzsche|Friedrich Nietzche]]
- 20th century: Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, [[thoughts/Camus|Albert Camus]], Gabriel Marcel, Paul Tillich