With that, the anxiety was collectively heard and felt with its louder voice and remembered to define an era. ... Another important figure in his time was Friedrich Nietzsche who helped pave the way to the idea of Existentialism, a way of coping with uncertainty. ... Existentialism accepts uncertainty and the anxiety that it causes as part of our existence. ... Before Existentialism, Soren Kierkegaard surfaced the validity of absurdity by explaining the acceptance of Christianity as a "Leap of Faith". ... To have a response, there must be a defining cause. ...

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He argued that reason, democracy, progress, and respectability were all defining aspects of conventional morality, and that what we should really be concentrating on is the inner passion and animal instincts that provoke us as beings to think and act, and to be truly creative. ... Following in the revolutionary footsteps that Nietzsche laid out in world of philosophical thinking, were two equally, if not more influential ideas called logical empiricism (or logical positivism), and existentialism. ... In response to all of this uncertainty and anxiety another form of philosophical thinking emer...

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