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Existentialism: Individual
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This is the second part of the 'Existentialism is a Humanism' outline. It overviews Sartre's discussion of ethical and existential issues (freedom - responsibility, moral decisions and values, individualism and intersubjectivity, anguish and forlorness, despair and universality).
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Cotkin's most original insight is something that escaped Camus and the others: "Existentialism, American style...jibes well with American antinomianism, that willingness of the lonely individual to rebel against entrenched authority in the name of his or her most intense beliefs. Antinomianism, like existentialism, challenges easy certitude, entrenched religion, and moribund political assumptions."
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Existentialism proclaims the urge of the individual to develop without hindrance. But its constitutional aversion to the organised action of mass movements determined by historically given circumstances renders it incapable of finding an effective solution of this problem for the bulk of humanity. That is why it is nonconformist rather than revolutionary.
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