Essay Archive - Existentialism
Existentialism
In our individual routines, each and every one of us strive to be the
best that we are capable of being. How peculiar this is; we aim for similar
goals, yet the methods we enact are unique. Just as no two people have the same
fingerprint, no two have identical theories on how to live life. While some
follow religious outlines to aspire to a level of moral excellence, others
pursue different approaches. Toward the end of the Nineteenth-Century and on
through the mid-Twentieth, a movement followed "existentialism," a philosophical
theory of life, in order to achieve such a level. Even though the idea of
exist....
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