Beliefs

BELIEFS:

• Humans are thrown into a world of reality where pain, frustration, sickness, contempt, malaise and death dictate their lives.

• Existentialism stems from the belief that "existence precedes essence" meaning human beings have no essential self, they are no more than what they appear.

• Existentialists reject reason.

• No outside forces governing our lives, individuals must take responsibility for their own actions.

• Human beings must define their own nature.

• "Anxiety, or the sense of anguish, a generalized uneasiness, a fear or dread which is not directed to any specific object. Anguish is the dread of the nothingness of human existence."-Kierkegaard

• Individuals are preoccupied with concerns such as anxiety, absurdity and crisis situations.

• All life ends with death; life has little purpose.

• Some themes of existentialism include, anxiety, a feeling of nothingness, absurdity, and alienation.