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In the world of the existentialist there are many questions that need answering. Why do we exist? What is right and what is wrong? Who decides what is right and what is wrong?
Throughout his life, existentialist,tried to answer these and many other perplexing questions. Kierkegaard was a devout Christian who felt that it should be the goal of all humans to become a Christian just as he had.
Human life in general does not r Soren Kierkegaard eally concern the existentialist, however the choices that the human makes throughout their life, do. "The primary goal of the existentialist writer is to make all humans aware that they are living individuals who in their freedom make decisions and are responsible for them." (Oaklander 3) Numerous themes abound in the existentialist's world that they deal with and discuss in their writings. Examples would be: primacy of the individual, critique of reason, inauthentic vs. authentic, the boundary situation, alienation, encounter with......

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