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Associated with Søren Kierkegaard, the idea that embracing religious faith goes beyond rationality and requires a subjective commitment or 'leap'.

Jean-Paul Sartre's concept detailing how individuals experience themselves from the perspective of others, affecting their freedom and self-conception.

French philosopher who contributed to existentialism through his incorporation of the lived body and perception as primary ways of engaging with the world.

A concept popularized by Albert Camus involving the conflict between human tendencies to seek inherent value and meaning in life, and the inability to find any in a purposeless, meaningless or chaotic and irrational universe.

Sartre's concept which explores the encounter with another free being, revealing the objectified nature of the self within the social world.

Heidegger's term 'Geworfenheit', referring to humans' individual existence as being thrown into the world, shaping their perception and possibilities.

Sartre's concept describing the human tendency to deceive oneself to avoid the responsibility that comes with full awareness of one's freedom.

A concept implying that individuals are thrown into certain conditions of existence, such as their era or sociocultural context, influencing his or her life.

Concept referring to the directedness of consciousness; a fundamental principle of phenomenology that influenced existentialists' views on the structure of experience.