Saturday, November 29, 2008

existential quote 2

Jean Paul Sartre

“By existentialism we mean a doctrine which makes human life possible and, in addition, declares that every truth and every action implies a human setting and a human subjectivity”. This is controversial because Sartre also says that acting out of any doctrine is practicing bad faith. Therefore, he is putting his beliefs that he supports so strongly in the same category as things that he disagrees with, for example, the Bible. I disagree with this because there isn’t any doctrine, not even the bible, that can make human life possible. The only thing that can make human life possible is the one that created it; since God is the creator of human life, he is the only one that can make it possible. Therefore, theistically, man existence must precede his essence.

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