I think the above answer is not quite right. Existentialism is not JUST about "living for the sake of living" - existentialists believe that human beings have a radical and terrifying freedom of will. In a godless universe with no inherent meaning and no universal morality, it is our duty to use our radical freedom to endow our lives with meaning of our own. It is about living for a cause or in a way of our own free choosing. Some people find this rather bleak, others think it enormously liberating. Personally, I think it a little bit posturing and silly. Nobody is really as 'free' as all that, and the heroic individualism of the existentialists borders on the romantic.|||Philosophy or a result of work of a philosopher is not a religion.|||Albert Camus philosophy was about existentialism, living for the sake of living. Only enjoy the physical pleasures of life and nothing really matters. Death is inevitable.
I find it a bit sad though, living for the sake of living.
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