Existentialism prizes future-oriented action over inherited tradition

Evidence

Sartre was the bridge to all the traditions that he plundered, modernised, personalised and reinvented. Yet he insisted all his life that what mattered was not the past at all: it was the future. One must keep moving, creating what will be: acting in the world and making a difference to it. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 76

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distills existentialism’s forward orientation — acting and creating what will be — as its core stance, useful as orientation for someone new to the movement.
• XREF: Connects to the 1968 students who owed more to Sartre than they realized, and to the lineage back to Nietzsche and Kierkegaard that later chapters in this book trace. — connects to: Original thought can also inherit a prior heritage

Broader Connections

• Original thought can also inherit a prior heritage #complicates (0.75)