Characteristics Of Existentialism

GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF EXISTENTIALISM

1. Essence to be kept after Existence

The term existentialism comes out of the description that it is only a person’s being along with his personal and specific life happenings for which this life has got a meaning. Existentialism claims that a person exists or lives, rather than having essence, that each and every individual experiences life from a different perspective and their lives are only understandable with the view of their responsibilities and commitments. “Who am I?” is the most common question asked by of the existentialists. This question is rather more unique as well as mysterious which emphasizes the personal life of an individual instead of the impersonal side. An existentialist believes

However, the second is that the life comprises of some dark parts that make life’s depth an unreasonable mystery, i.e. any reason cannot penetrate into the explanation of the life’s depth. The latter means that a person usually gets involved into some acts that confront down the reason. Reason and irrational parts of psyche have been brought together by existentialism pursuing the idea that an individual must be considered as a whole, and not in the state of some divided parts. The whole personality of an individual contains many things including intellect, anxiety, guilt, and will power. These parts when untied as a whole tend to have the ability to either change or strengthen the reason. When humanity is observed from this point of view, humans seem to be very uncertain, worried, tensed, and contradicted. Existentialism does not push the idea, but the person who carries the idea. Existentialism is not the name given only to the individual’s potential to come up with an idea, but it also takes up their imperfection, fragility, their physique, and much more without ignoring their death being the most important reality of existence. People do not seem to find their souls in impartiality of the idea, but it is found in the contribution and distress of making choices along with the despair of

Another sort of tension confronting people in the 20th century when the theory of existentialism creates is the distress of Abraham, the need which lies upon individuals to make right decisions depending upon none other than their own attentiveness of obligation. The existentialists assert that each of us must settle on good choices in our own particular lives which include the same agony that confronted Abraham. In this story, Abraham is directed by God to sacrifice his child Isaac. Abraham subsequently turns into the example of one who must settle on a nerve racking decision, for this situation between his adoration for his child and his affection for God, between the general law which states, "thou shalt not murder," and the interesting internal interest for his religious confidence. Abraham 's choice, which damages the unique and aggregate law of man, is not made in self-importance, but rather in "trepidation and trembling," one of the derivations being that occasionally, one must take an exemption to the general law on the grounds that he is (existentially) a special case; a person whose presence can never be totally controlled by any universal