How should the terminology "existential ontology" be defined?

Question

The philosophy of Martin Heidegger and Jean Paul Sartre has been described as existential ontology. What type of analytic definition should we give this terminology?

Answer 1

A metaphysical examination of existence. Seeking true reality.

"P.1137 - §2 Out of his incomplete grasp of science, his faint hold upon religion, and his abortive attempts at metaphysics, man has attempted to construct his formulations of philosophy. And modern man would indeed build a worthy and engaging philosophy of himself and his universe were it not for the breakdown of his all-important and indispensable metaphysical connection between the worlds of matter and spirit, the failure of metaphysics to bridge the morontia gulf between the physical and the spiritual. Mortal man lacks the concept of morontia mind and material; and revelation is the only technique for atoning for this deficiency in the conceptual data which man so urgently needs in order to construct a logical philosophy of the universe and to arrive at a satisfying understanding of his sure and settled place in that universe."

P.9 - §2 Morontia is a term designating a vast level intervening between the material and the spiritual. It may designate personal or impersonal realities, living or nonliving energies. The warp of morontia is spiritual; its woof is physical.

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Answer 2

they don't have anything to do with one another

existentialism is a subjective struggle for self meaning (internal identity despite extension)

ontology is an epistemological problem, of more of what can be known of extension and not so much ones identity.