Existentialism is human-centered and respects human personality and freedom. People live in a meaningless universe, and human existence itself is meaningless, but people can shape themselves, achieve themselves and live a wonderful life on the basis of their original existence, which is meaningful.
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The representative work of existentialism: Being and Nothingness (Author: Jean Paul Sartre)
Content introduction:
The publication of 1943 Being and nothingness announced the birth of Sartre as a philosopher. He began to describe his understanding of the world with his independent thoughts and philosophical words: man is his own existence and has the characteristics of transcendence. He is always in change and realized in the passage of time.
It is precisely because of its timeliness that "self-existence" is not an existence like "free existence", but an existence that is always displayed as "not what it is, not what it is". What a person is only refers to what he was in the past and the future does not exist. The present is a kind of negation connecting the past and the future, and it is actually a kind of nothingness.
So people are destined to be free, and freedom is their destiny. People must be free to make a series of choices for themselves. It is in the process of free choice that people give meaning to objects, but people must take full responsibility for all their choices.
The first three parts of this book are to solve the basic viewpoint of phenomenological ontology: Sartre has determined the category of existence, the structure and characteristics of self-existence and its existence law.
On this basis, the latter two parts mainly discuss the specific relationship between the existence of self-action and other self-actions, freedom and situation, thus demonstrating human freedom. Finally, the ethical significance of freedom is described by phenomenological "existential psychoanalysis", which is also the foothold of phenomenological ontology.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-existentialism