As Sartre’s states is “man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterward. If a man as the existentialist sees him is not definable, it is because to begin with, he is nothing. He will not be anything until later, and then he will be what he makes of himself” (Sartres, 1946). Sartre 's defends the difference between two types of existentialism. Sartre defines the two by stating “ There are, on the one hand, the Christians, amongst whom I shall name Jaspers and Gabriel Marcel, both professed Catholics; and on the other the existential atheists, amongst whom we must place Heidegger as well as the French existentialists and myself” (Sartre, 1946). The commonality with the mentioned philosopher is that their
As Sartre’s states is “man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterward. If a man as the existentialist sees him is not definable, it is because to begin with, he is nothing. He will not be anything until later, and then he will be what he makes of himself” (Sartres, 1946). Sartre 's defends the difference between two types of existentialism. Sartre defines the two by stating “ There are, on the one hand, the Christians, amongst whom I shall name Jaspers and Gabriel Marcel, both professed Catholics; and on the other the existential atheists, amongst whom we must place Heidegger as well as the French existentialists and myself” (Sartre, 1946). The commonality with the mentioned philosopher is that their