Today we can see the basic themes of Existentialism through the writings of Jean-Paul Sarte, Simone De Beauvoir and Albeert Camus. Existentialism is the philosophy that focuses on the individual person, usually stressing choice, freedom, and the problems of existence. This thought was born in French café's among young intellectual playwrites, novelist, poets, musicians, and artist far from academia. Existential philosophers have no spacific system they go bye. Some are religious, agnostic, or conservative. They all do agree that traditional philosophy was too remote from life to have any meaning for them. All of their attention is put toward the inner life of an individual, and believe that as human beings we can decide how we will live. They wonder about the inner life and ask questions like "who am I?" "What does my life mean?" "Why am I afraid?" The philosophers of existentialism say as human beings we can decide how we will live, because it is up to us to make things happen. Existentialist want to address the problems people have about fears, anxiety, and the thought of the enviornment and heredity ruling our lives.
Existentialism is continuous with classical modern philosophy because it can be related to so many things that other philosophers have thought up and discussed. Descartes used the method of doubt "I think, therefore I am." He said that the human mind has two powers, intuition and deduction. Intuition is the ability to understand certain truths and deduction is what people use to discover what they don't know with what they do know. Desecrates ideas bring us back to existentialism because of the fact theses powers of the mind have to do with the individual. Desecrate broke down the individuals mind and what it can do to survive in the world. Finding certain truths, and using what you do know to learn what you don't can answer questions like "who am I?" which comes along with existentialism.
