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en-wikipedia-org-267		Existentialism - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	14223	1827	59	Existentialism is associated with several 19thand 20th-century European philosophers who shared an emphasis on the human subject, despite profound doctrinal differences.[6][4][7] Many existentialists regarded traditional systematic or academic philosophies, in style and content, as too abstract and remote from concrete human experience.[8][9] A primary virtue in existentialist thought is authenticity.[10] Søren Kierkegaard is generally considered to have been the first existentialist philosopher,[6][11][12] though he did not use the term existentialism.[13] He proposed that each individual—not society or religion—is solely responsible for giving meaning to life and living it passionately and sincerely, or "authentically".[14][15] The main idea of existentialism during World War II was developed by Jean-Paul Sartre under the influence of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Martin Heidegger, whom he read in a POW camp and strongly influenced many disciplines besides philosophy, including theology, drama, art, literature, and psychology.[16]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-267.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-267.txt