PHIL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism, Christian Existentialism
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His defense against this is that man has control over his actions. Sartre rebuts this by saying that on the contrary, there is no doctrine more optimistic than existentialism because it says that the destiny of man is placed within himself (38). This idea is that essence precedes existence, which is different than existence preceding essence. This is the same ideology they apply to the creation of man; they say that god makes man according to a procedure and a conception (28). The christian existentialists say that god has the idea of man and then creates him. The contrasting opinion, that of atheistic existentialists, is that man first of all exists[ ] and defines himself afterwards (28). In other words, they"re saying that existence comes first, and then man creates his essence afterwards: question #5: sartre explains what he thinks the relationship is between the decision to act and the value of that action.
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