What Sartre means by 'existence precedes essence' — you are not born with a fixed nature

How does the concept of 'finitude' (limit or boundary) influence the existentialist understanding of authenticity in Sartre's philosophy?

Finitude in Sartre's existentialism underscores authenticity as embracing life's inherent limits to define one's essence

What Sartre means by 'condemned to be free' — you cannot escape the burden of choice

Sartre's 'condemned to be free' implies inherent responsibility for choices, despite the absence of predetermined essence

What Heidegger meant by the forgetting of Being — Western metaphysics reduced Being to beings

Heidegger's concept: Western metaphysics obscured Being by focusing on individual beings

What Husserl meant by 'intentionality' — consciousness is always consciousness OF something

Intentionality: consciousness inherently directed towards an object

What Heidegger means by 'thrownness' (Geworfenheit) — we find ourselves in a situation we didn't choose

Heidegger's 'thrownness' describes our existence as involuntarily situated in a world with pre-existing conditions

What the ontological difference is for Heidegger — the difference between Being and beings

Heidegger's ontological difference: Being as the ground of beings, not beings themselves