Essentialism in Human Identity
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In essentialism, the human person is more than just a physical body. It also has an eternal, unchangeable human ______.

nature

Essentialism emphasizes on the human person's rationality and the 'universal person'. Existentialism is another philosophical ______.

doctrine

Existentialism asserts that the human person is 'thrown into' a tangible, physical, real ______.

universe

Existentialist philosophers believe that humans are totally free and must take responsibility and define the meaning of their own ______.

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In existentialism, the principle is that 'existence precedes ______' and its ultimate reality is free choice.

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One of the central figures in 20th Century French philosophy, Jean-Paul Sartre, put it: 'What is meant here by saying that existence precedes ______?'

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Phenomenology is a method of philosophical inquiry used by philosophers and is based on the premise that reality is made up of events as perceived and understood in the human consciousness of that which is independent of the human conscious.Phainomenon portends to the objects, either real or imagined, that are perceived by the ______.

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Edmund Husserl, the father of phenomenology, described this using what he called 'two poles': the noema or 'that which is perceived,' and the ______, which is 'the act of perceiving.'

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Husserl asserted that phenomenology is free of presumption because it does not make claims about some objective reality.Rather, it studies objects or events from the position of ______.

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It means first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the scene, and, only afterwards, defines himself.If man, as the existentialist conceives him, is indefinable, it is because at first he is ______.

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Only afterward will he be something, and he himself will have made what he will ______.

<p>be</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is reality?What is truth?Make sure to find the answers here so that you can fulfill your ______.

<p>mission</p> Signup and view all the answers

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