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"As in the Olympic Games it is not the most beautiful and the strongest that are crowned but those who compete, so those who act rightly win the noble and good things in life."

contemplative life is impossible without the appropriate social environment, and such an environment is impossible without the appropriate government.

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Existentialism: Crash Course Philosophy #16

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a philosophical theory or approach that emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will.

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Existentialism is broadly defined in a variety of concepts and there can be no one answer as to what it is, yet it does not support any of the following:

wealth, pleasure, or honor make the good life

social values and structure control the individual

accept what is and that is enough in life

science can and will make everything better

people are basically good but ruined by society or external forces

“I want my way, now!” or “It is not my fault!” mentality

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What It Is
Existentialism takes into consideration the underlying concepts:

Human free will

Human nature is chosen through life choices

A person is best when struggling against their individual nature, fighting for life

Decisions are not without stress and consequences

There are things that are not rational

Personal responsibility and discipline is crucial

Society is unnatural and its traditional religious and secular rules are arbitrary

Worldly desire is futile

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The Philosophy of Symbolic Form is the widest learning of human cultural expression—in myth, religion, language, philosophy, history, art, and science—for the sake of completing and correcting Kant’s transcendental program. The human being, for Cassirer, is not simply the rational animal, but the animal whose experience with and reaction to the world is governed by symbolic relations.
Taken together, the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is a grand narrative that exposits how various human experiences evolve out of an originally animalistic and primitive articulation of expressive signs into the complicated and more abstract forms of culture in the twenty-first century.