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......Existentialism
Existentialism faces the fact that existential predicament may not be solved. If we do not accept this fact much honesty this kind of fact, then life is headed towards deterioration. If we do not struggle with problems that envelope our very existence, then we will not find the meaning and value of life. These rather dark truths have long been espoused by thinkers such as Arthur Schopenhauer, Soren Kierkegaard, and Friedrich Nietzsche as a response to the optimism found in Hegelian idealism, i.e. that human mind is in constant progression towards total freedom and realization of its potentials (ibid)
Kierkegaard objected Hegels stance on the rationality of things as the former emphasized that the world is defined by irrationalities the world is a place where suffering, death, and dread are inescapable. Hence, the utility of philosophy must lie on its ability to speak to the anguished individual living in this irrational world and at the same time confronted by decisions that need to be made (ibid)......

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