Word: existentialist
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...problem with all types of existentialist thinking is to communicate with the self existentially, rather than to think about existentialism," Niebuhr said...
Illusory thinking is the main target for Christian and other schools of existentialist thought...
...different schools attempt to combat "illusory thinking," Neibuhr said. The Christian existentialist approach is based on the relationship between selves, while the "positivist" school focuses on defining the precise relationship between things...
...Word Is Tension. By 1950, Paddy was in Paris, living in a cheap Left Bank hotel and growing an existentialist beard. He had tackled Paris with ?25 in his pockets, but that was soon gone, and he scrabbled a living doing commission portraits of American G.I.s and tourists. "No picture survived this period," he says. "I sold them all to buy food and drink." Nights, he went to the galleries, and there he found what he wanted to do. He liked such old French masters as the 17th century's Nicolas Poussin, the 19th century's Eugene Delacroix...
This sounds like the Existentialist answer to the modern dilemma-an answer which assumes that all questions of faith are pointless and only man's pride and courage are of value. It is an answer that would have left Kafka as restless as before and convinced Dostoevsky that the Nihilists had won the day. But Author Buzzati, no Existentialist himself, presents it as a universal truth, a faith to die for; and so, though The Tartar Steppe suffers from being a copy of The Castle, it gains from the gravity and human sympathy with which it is written. Like...