![]() ![]() stress people's search for meaning in their lives. People are both subjective and objective, not one or the other, and they must search for truth by living an active and authentic life. It has attempted to understand the essential components of things, including humans. traditionally in western culture essence has taken precedence over existence. ![]() * existence takes precedence over essence*, meaning that - process, growth, becoming and refining ourselves through our choices or something are more important than - product or finality. As people realize that they, ultimately, are in charge of their own destiny, they experience the burden of freedom and pain of responsibility.ġ. ![]() However, this acquisition of freedom and responsibility is achieved at the expense of anxiety and dread. People acquire freedom of action by expanding their self-awareness and by assuming responsibility for their actions. Like later existentialists, he emphasized a balance between freedom and responsibility. He wished to understand people as they exist in the world of thinking, active, and willing beings. He was concerned with the person experiences and the experience the experiencing person. he opposed the attempt to see people as objects, but also rejected the idea that subjective perspective is the only reality. Like later existentialists, he emphasized the trend in post-industrialised societies towards the dehumanizing of people. Søren Kierkegaard, the Danish philosopher, and theologian is usually considered to be the founder of modern existentialism. ![]()
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