Existentialism is a kind of humanism

The philosophy of existentialism has become one of the most famous, bright and authoritative trends of our time. It is based on anti-centristism, which makes it clear that rational philosophy is not able to answer many questions, it simply stalled, so it's time to move your view of the person, his problems and life.

This flow originated in the 20-ies of the twentieth century in Germany. Immediately after the First World War, the society awoke and looked at the existence of man, his problems with different eyes. There are two directions: religious existentialism and atheistic. This philosophy was opposed to rational theories, where only a specific human subject was considered. Existentialism presupposed a struggle for personality.

The philosophical current almost simultaneously originated in Germany, France and Russia, this is confirmed by the scientific works of the philosophers of these countries. But the Germans became pioneers, and the French existentialism developed on the works of Heidegger and Jaspers. In Germany, ideological sources, interpretations and interpretations were adopted. In France, two currents were immediately represented: religious and atheistic. The first was represented by Gabriel Marcel, and the second by Camus and Sartre.

"Existentialism is humanism" is the well-known thesis of the French philosopher Sartre, who is forced to wonder whether this is really so. If representatives of the religious movement tried to find a lost connection with God, to shove old dogmas into a new framework, then atheists first of all considered the autonomous personality apart from cultural and social structures. Atheistic direction tried to contrast destructive tendencies with the pathos of a lonely person and humanism.

In 1946, Sartre's book "Existentialism is Humanism" was published for the first time. Many years have already passed, and it was repeatedly reprinted, because in it in an accessible form the foundations of this philosophy and the point of view of the author himself are stated. The very idea of existentialism lies in the fact that a person is very lonely, and on this basis various fears develop, which open real being. It turns out that a person exists only in order to be in this world.

In his work Sartre tried to answer the question, existentialism is humanism or something else, and he talked about how these two trends can be correlated. Bright representatives of humanism are considered Petrarch, Dante, Boccaccio. They said that anthropocentrism, coming from human consciousness, assuming human value as a value, is humanism. The only exception is that it subordinates people to superhuman forces and alienates them from themselves.

Existentialism is humanism, but special. Here the main role is played not by the person himself, but by something transcending himself in the surrounding world, trying to achieve certain goals and heights, constantly in motion and searching for the best. Existentialism rests on the same foundations as humanism, but this current is closer to the being of man. The main thing here is the achievement of higher possibilities. Each person has something of value, the highest goal that must be achieved. Therefore, it can be said with certainty that existentialism is still humanism.