John-Paul Sartre's Existentialism

Sartre describes the responsibilities of freedom through three principles of ideas in the passage written by John-Paul Sartre “Existentialism Is a Humanism.” Therefore, providing the understanding that we are free to make choices and have a responsibility to make choices as individuals with the absence of God. These principles or concepts regarding Sartre’s Existentialism of radical freedom and responsibility include that man exists and along the way defines himself, man is accountable for all men, and finally man is “condemned to be free” from the moment he is born.
Sartre clearly states early on that there is two kinds of existentialists one is Christian and the other is the existential atheist, which he includes himself in the category …show more content…
There was a need for the paper knife and therefore man produced this item. Additionally, the same could be said for a microwave that man has created with a purpose to heat food. Therefore, the creator has an idea, purpose, and conception to make the microwave or a paper knife in order for the creation to come into existence. This idea also applies to humans. From the Christian view God made humans for a purpose to fulfill God’s will. However, from the atheist viewpoint there is no God that created us, but we are in this world. So initially, we have no purpose when we enter the world and this purpose is defined along the way as we live our life. Man will create himself as he moves through life. With no God to guide you, then one must develop himself on his own by the choices or decisions he …show more content…
In other words we are able to live our life and build it as we see fit. If given a set of blocks you can build what ever you want to build with these blocks. As soon as we are thrust into the world these blocks are thrown down for us to build what ever we like. We are able to build our life as we see fit. This might mean we decide to do drugs or not to do drugs. We as individual can chose to do or be what we want to be. Therefore, with no God to follow, for example, through the Ten Commandments or the guidelines of the Bible, we are radically free to make our own choices. Sartre’s stated, “This is humanism, because we remind man that there is no legislator but himself; that he himself, thus abandoned, must decide for himself; also because we show that it is not by turning back upon himself, but always by seeking, beyond himself, an aim which is one of liberation or of some particular realization, that man can realize himself as truly human” (Sartre