By Schubert Ogden
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But, then, existentialist philosophy and humanist-idealist philosophy are materially different ways of doing formally the same thing – -- or, if you will, materially different answers to formally the same question. They are both addressed, albeit indirectly, to the same existential question; but their answers are different, in that the first takes account, as the second does not, of the historicity of human existence, thereby satisfying the criterion of a "legitimate" world view that the second fails to satisfy.
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