Existentialism And Human Emotions By Jean-Paul Sartre

The leading existential philosopher pf the twentieth century, Jean-Paul Sartre, in his book “Existentialism and Human Emotions” states that existence precedes essence. Existence comes before your soul, believes, and characteristics—you exist and create who you are. By nature we are greedy and competitive, but we have a choice. It is not “essence precedes existence.” You can choose not to be greedy, you can choose not to be competitive, or you can choose to be a good person. There is always a choice you can choose. Even when you said, “I have no choice, but to do it or pick it,” you have the choice to not do it. In this paper, I will be addressing how “existence precedes essence” tie to the concepts of anguish, despair, and forlornness. Also, …show more content…
You have the freedom to be who you are, your essence was not predetermined. You have the choice to make yourself the kind of person who you want to be instead of created it for you ahead of time, you are free to choose. You create your essence through your actions and the decisions you make. Because you exist first you have no predetermine for your essence so, you are free—your actions, you choices are yours. Even if you decide to listen to someone; for example, your mom tells you have to be this ways or do this things, if you do decide to listen to your mother and become that person you still have the choice to listen to her. That is your choice to take what she says and become that person, you can’t blame your mom. You are totally free of the creation of your …show more content…
Even if God really exist you are alone to make the choices. You have nothing to cling, so you cannot say I did not have a choice or start making excuses for yourself or it is not my fault. You can’t blame others for your action—no excuses, no God, no predetermine whether you will be good or bad. It is your choice along to make choices. “Man is condemned to be free” (Sartre 23). He is responsible for everything he does. The existentialist does not believe in the power of passion. He thinks that man is responsible for his position. The boy was wavering between two kinds of ethics: ethics of sympathy and broader simple. He needs to make the decision whether he will be the fighting man at war or stay with him mother. If he loves his mom more than going to war, then he will stay with his mom. The value of a feeling determined only if to perform on act which confirms and define it. Moreover, even if you choose to seek advice from a priest, you have make the decision alone that what he says is the advice you knew he was going to give you. From the beginning every actions you make it is your choice