Existentialism

Existentialism places individual existence, freedom, and responsibility at the centre of philosophy. Kierkegaard's radical inwardness, Nietzsche's call to create one's own values, Heidegger's analysis of being-in-the-world, and Sartre's declaration that existence precedes essence all converge on the conviction that we are irrevocably free and that this freedom is the source of both our anxiety and our possibility.