different between essentialism vs existentialism

English

Etymology

essential +? -ism

Noun

essentialism (countable and uncountable, plural essentialisms)

1. (philosophy) The view that objects have properties that are essential to them.
2. (sociology) The view that all members of certain groups of people (such as those with the same race, gender, age, or sexual orientation) have common, essential traits inherent to the defining feature of the group; (also) behavior or statement(s) that reflect such a view.
3. (education) The doctrine that there are certain traditional concepts, values, and skills that are essential to society and should be taught to all students.
4. A lifestyle that seeks to minimize nonessentials in order to focus on what is important.
5. (philosophy) The theory that human beings are by nature (i.e. essentially) good and that evil is the product of society.

Related terms

• essentialist

Translations

Swedish

Noun

essentialism c (uncountable)

1. (philosophy) essentialism

Declension

Related terms

• essentialist

English

Etymology

From existential +? -ism; borrowed from German Existentialismus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???z??st?n??l?z?m/

Noun

existentialism (countable and uncountable, plural existentialisms)

1. (philosophy, not countable) A twentieth-century philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices.

   The heyday of existentialism occurred in the mid-twentieth century.

2. (philosophy, countable) The philosophical views of a particular thinker associated with the existentialist movement.

   Sartre's existentialism is atheistic, but the existentialism of Marcel is distinctly Christian.

   • 1965, Mikel Dufrenne, "Existentialism and Existentialisms," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol 26 no 1 (Sep), p. 51.

     Instead of Existentialism, we should speak of Existentialisms.

Antonyms

• noumenalism

Related terms

• exist
• existence
• existential
• existentialist

Translations

Swedish

Noun

existentialism c

1. (philosophy) existentialism

Declension