and placing it in its metaphysical context in the world, and he is necessarily concerned with human action. According Sartre in Koeswara, 1987: 9 being is a
measure of human existence, a dimension base on subjectivity. Sartre divides being into two parts, Being-for-itself and Being-in-itself. Being for-itself etre-
pour-soi is consciousness of human which knows that it exists and is being in real world. The subject of being-for-its-self is human.
Another being-in-itself, it is non-conscious being. The things have no conscious sense, it cannot nor has freedom to choose, they are just exist and
Being, but on the one hand human has a conscious for their existence.
2. Existence before Essence
Sartre 2002: 44 states that existence before essence is human being face with their self, they exists in the world and define their self. Human existence is
different with the thing existence, through the term of “Exsistence before Essence”. Human has a relation to the existence, man is being by his conscious as
his own self and as like that he cannot be exchanged, man is judged from what he does, which is the reflection from the decision of choices.
For Sartre, a man exists himself consciously. The existentialist stated that “man exists, in that existence, he defines himself and the world in his own
subjectivity and wanders between choice, freedom and existentialism anxiety.
3. Consciousness Cogito
The third major principle of existentialism is the term of consciousness that is proposed by Sartre. He explained that cogito or consciousness is self
consciousness, cogito is not self experience but human existence in non-thematic way. Sartre in Dagun, 1990: 99 divides consciousness into two groups, namely
thematic consciousness and non-thematic consciousness. Thematic consciousness is consciousness as if something, and non-thematic consciousness is
consciousness as if he exists. Consciousness is closely related to action, since A man must have his consciousness, when human acts, “there is no such thing as
bore consciousness unconnected with action
A man must have certain purpose to do something. When he decides something, he must predict its profit and its loss. Man always looks for his perfect
condition; he never stops until he finds it. When he makes a decision for his life, his consciousness plays an important role.
4. Freedom to Choose
The fourth major element of existentialism is freedom to choose. Man is free and responsible. Human responsible on himself because human has freedom
and opportunity to do, to choose good life or bad life and to become everything he wants. Making a decision is a form of human’s freedom. “Man is nothing else but
his plan; he exists only to the extent that he fulfills himself; he is therefore nothing else than the ensemble of his act, nothing else than his life” Hassan, 1985: 103.
5. Anxiety
