Existentialism is philosophical movement emphasizing on freedom, individual existence and choice that influenced many writers in the 19th and 20th centuries. It embraces a variety of doctrines which stress the major themes individual existence, subjectivity, freedom and choice in a vast universe, and the life long plight of an individual, who must assume ultimate responsibility for his or her acts of free will. Those very actions and choices should be viewed as right and wrong ways of choosing. Choice is central to human existence, and inescapable even the decision not to choose is a choice. Choice entails commitment and responsibility. The individual responsibility to choose his or her way with out universally accepted truths. Personal experience and acting on the individuals inner convictions are essential at arriving at truth. .
• Moral Individualism - The highest form of good for the individual to find is his or her own unique vocation.
• Subjectivity- Individual action in deciding questions of both morality and truth.
• Existence precedes essence- You have to exist to have essence, man exist and in that existence man defines himself and the world in his own subjectivity.
• Human beings lack a fixed nature- each human being makes choices that create his or her nature.
• Becoming a Being- we are what we become.
• Nothingness-There is nothing that structures the world or mans existence. Existence precedes essence so there is nothing i.e. no God.
• Absurdity- We arrive from nothingness thus we have no purpose, therefore it is absurd to search for meaning in the midst of vast nothingness.
• Angst and Anxiety- The dread of the nothingness of human existence and the realization that it's all meaningless, because there's no ultimate justification for the choices we inevitably make .
• Death- It's always there, the thought of it causes anxiety and the only escape from anxiety, is to release yourself from existence and become nothing once more, this is death.
