"If you seek authenticity for authenticity's sake, you are no longer authentic." - Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)
 
   
 
The philosophy of existentialism stresses individual existence, subjectivity, individual freedom, and choice. One of the most common themes in existentialism is choice.

Below is an outline of the philosophy:
...... There is an importance of passionate individual action in deciding questions of both morality and truth.
...... Argues that no objective, rational basis that can be found for moral decisions.
...... Suspicion of systematic reasoning.
...... Belief in perspectivism.
...... Existence precedes essence. Humans do not have a fixed nature, or essence.
...... Choice is central to human existence. It is inescapable. Refusal to choose is a choice.
...... Freedom of choice entails commitment and responsibility.
...... The freedom to choose ones own path requires an individual to accept the risk and responsibility of following their
......... commitment wherever it leads.

Many existentialist authors are deliberately unsystematic in the exposition of their philosophies, preferring to express themselves in aphorisms, dialogues, parables, and other literary forms.
   
 
   
  Friedrich Nietzsche
...... Declared that "God is Dead" in The Gay Science.
...... Refused to accept any simplistic contrast of good and evil.
...... Contends that the individual must decide which situations are to count as moral situations.
...... Opposes utilitarianism.
...... Rejects the entire Judeo-Christian Moral Tradition.
...... Asserts that the scientific assumption of an orderly universe is for the most part a useful fiction.
   
  Jean-Paul Sartre
...... Existence precedes Essence
   
 

Søren Kierkegaard
(1813-1855)

   
  Existentialism: A Primer: http://www.tameri.com/csw/exist/
  (the cry): Existentialism: http://www.thecry.com/existentialism/
   
 
   
  Sartre, Jean-Paul Anti-Semite and Jew
     
  Baudrillard, Jean Simulations
     
  Nietzsche, Friedrich The Gay Science
     
  Camus, Albert The Stranger (1942)
    The Fall (1956)
   

Jean-Paul Sartre
(1905-1980)
 
   
  - Articles
  Encarta Encyclopedia:
  ...... Camus, Albert
  ...... Existentialism
  ...... Nietzsche, Friedrich
  ...... Sartre, Jean-Paul
   
  Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
  ...... Existentialism
     
  Wikipedia: The Free Encylopedia:  
  ...... Camus, Albert

Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(1821-1881)
  ...... Existentialism
  ...... Nietzsche, Friedrich
  ...... Satre, Jean-Paul
   
  - Essays
  Existentialism is a Humanism. Sartre, Jean-Paul.
  Notes on Existentialism.
   
  - Essays: Criticism
  There are no items available in this catagory at the present time.
   
  - Literature Analysis  
  The Stranger:  
  ...... Barron's Booknotes  
  ...... Classic Notes  
  ...... Pink Monkey  
  ...... Spark Notes

Martin Heidegger
(1889-1976)
   
  - Literature Excerpts
  Simulations [Full Text]
   
 
   
  - General Existentialism Groups:
  Existlist - All Things Existential
   
  - Nietzsche Groups:
  Nietzsche's Philosophy - The club of Nietzsche's Readers
  Our Pal Nietzsche - For the Ubermensch at Heart  
     
  - Sartre Groups:  
  Sartre - Existentialism, Marxism, Phenomenology  
   

Albert Camus
(1913-1960)
 
   
 
   
   
 
   
   
   
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