Existentialist Philosophers Analytical Essay by Nicky

This paper analyzes and explores the contributions of Jean Paul Sartre, Gabriel Marcel and Soren Kierkegaard to existentialism, a philosophy that analyzes human existence. The paper further defines existentialism as focusing on themes such as freedom, self awareness, the consciousness of the surrounding world, the act of becoming and the power that the individual has upon constructing himself. Additionally, the paper considers other aspects of philosophy, such as humanism, subjectivity and absolute freedom. Man and his capacity for free choice is also discussed at length. The paper concludes by stating that existentialism is a humanism because it believes in the capacity of the humans to decide by themselves, in the absence of any superior entity, upon what is wrong and right.