Søren Kierkegaard, the first writer to call himself existential, asserted that the highest good for the individual is to find his or her own unique vocation. He wrote in his journal, "I must find a truth that is true for me...the idea for which I can live or die." One chooses one's own way without the aid of universal, objective standards. Existential morality is against the traditional view that moral choice involves an objective judgment of right or wrong. No objective, rational basis can be found for moral decisions. Friedrich Nietzsche further contended that the individual decides or must decide which situations are to be classified as moral.

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