Atheistic Existentialism 3.24

• Albert Camus (specially with The Myth of Sisyphus)
  
• The term atheistic existentialism refers to an existential way of excluding any transcendental, metaphysical, or religious beliefs from the philosophical thought.
  
• Atheistic existentialism is an independent type of existentialism,
  
• the atheist has nothing on which to rely
  
• “A philosophy that emphasizes the uniqueness and isolation of the individual experience in a hostile or indifferent universe, regards human existence as unexplainable, and stresses freedom of choice and responsibility for the consequences of one's acts.”
  
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“Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least one being whose existence comes before its essence, a being which exists before it can be defined by any conception of it. That being is man....”
Jean-Paul Sartre


• It isn’t necessary for an existentialist to be an atheist
  
• Existential philosophy is more a trend or attitude than it is coherent school or movement because it is intensely subjective