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Existentialism and its Relationship with Humanism
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Hasan Panahi   , Leila Jbbari |
| Assistant Professor for Department of Theoretical Foundations of Islam |
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Abstract: (5 Views) |
Existentialism is a philosophical theory or approach which emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will. Existentialism based on pillars, such as principality of existence, human freedom, individuality that those factors have inherent with Humanism. Existentialism is a theory organized on a humanist school of thought. Existentialism in the culture of Western society has offered significant achievement; as a result, a great range of humanists has trended to this theory. Therefore, existentialism has accepted two basic principles of humanism: the origin of man and the absence of God. Thus, it is a “New Humanist” in the modern sense of the word. Existentialist philosophy, especially the atheistic philosophy of Sartre, is the most extreme form of philosophical humanism. This philosophy demands absolute freedom of human including not religion nor metaphysics nor ethics. For them, freedom is the basis of all values. So, existentialist humanist thought, which is dominated in the school of Western scholars, emphasizes on factors; for example, denying God and theism, assuming man as a substantive and self-dependent existence, emphasizing on freedom in the fields of ontology, epistemology and axiological.
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| Keywords: Existentialism, Humanism, Principality of Existence, Human. |
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Type of Study: Research |
Subject:
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Received: 2025/12/13 | Accepted: 2015/10/2 | Published: 2015/10/2
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