The Czech dissident movement included thinkers who searched for a morally pure, parallel polis, and who felt comfortable within its isolation. The philosophers of Charter 77 ( Jan Patocka and Ladislav Hejdanek especially), by contrast, rejected the idea of being morally superior to their opponents. It is interesting to consider where Vaclav Havel stands at this crossroads. Havel very much cooperated with the above-mentioned philosophers and was inspired by them in his own writing and agency. On the other hand, Havel undoubtedly performed a certain moral-existential concept of dissent. In this paper I examine Havel's existential concept. In particular, after distinguishing between two existential approaches in Havel's writings, I a...