Existentialism is philosophical view on the world. It is the idea of why and how humans exist in the world. Existentialism looks deep into things such as anxiety and freedom as those two things in particular affect how people go about the world and why they make the decisions that they do make. In order for someone to understand themselves, existential philosophers believe that a person must have an awareness of death and be conscious …
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…is good. Another idea of existentialism is agnostic existentialism. This type of existentialism believes that a person doesn't have to claim to know, or not know about the "bigger" picture, but what he or she chooses to act upon. Like the Christian existentialist, the agnostic existentialist believes that existence is subjective. So the idea that there is a god is not important to the agnostic existentialist, so that field is left for others to explore.