Existentialism is not a method but a vision, a perceptual resolution of the human world into raw essentials.
Against this we have an opposing tendency: "Human kind cannot bear very much reality."
I want to look at existentialism under two categories though it belongs with neither of them. It belongs properly, perhaps, in the field of religion, but it is to be met with in philosophy and psychology.
Existentialism is both philosophy in a special sense and a valency. This doesn't quite coincide with theory and practice but it may be a helpful division into two parts.
Wittgenstein remarked that the purpose of philosophy was to show "the fly the way out of the fly-bottle." Though not a fashionable definition this should satisfy the existentialist that we deal with problems upon whose issue much depends.
Totally unfashionable would be the definition given by Marcus Aurelius:
To be a philosopher is to keep unsullied and unscathed the divine spirit within him.
This serves to......

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