Humanism vs. Individualism

While Existentialism holds that the genesis of philosophical thinking rests with the individual and individual experience whose "existence precedes essence," Mormon Existentialism maintains a perspective advocating a collective universal and absolute reality whose nexus is God. It ascribes grounds to this on the concept of agency and the objective will to act with a moral objective. This perspective is entirely humanist and although theory is not grounded with individual experience, a reality of purpose and happiness in the continuum of existence for humanity is the basis of this philosophical thinking resting upon the love of God. 

With God as the nucleus, the humanist aim is elucidated through an understanding of His plan for us, the Plan of Salvation as spiritual essence precedes mortal existence. As spirits who lived pre-mortally, given the choice to enter conditional mortality with the gift of agency, the course and purpose of humanity is set to ultimately find its way back to Him. 

It was thus, not as pre-mortal spiritual selves but as selves to be challenged and tried by conditional mortal existence, through suffering and progression, to earn with authenticity a secure place in an eternal physical reality. The humanist understanding in the Classical sense is suggested here as each spirit who chooses conditional mortality has agency to realize the full measure of the self through hardship and difficulty of mortality. How else to prove quality, ability, integrity and endurance than when tried? 

For many, challenges of insignificance demonstrate character of insignificant worth, while for others, immense and seemingly insurmountable challenges met nobly or overcome proves character of immense worth. Such will proceed to an eternal physical reality that is unconditional in quality to the demonstration of mortal worth. 

This is the nature of the humanist quality of Mormon Existentialism, a realization of the measure of possibility and eternal purpose engendered by the love of God rather than hollow beginnings of theory recognized as the origins of Existentialism whose abrupt and disoriented birth of existence has little chance for a realization of happiness in proceeding essence.