What philosopher said people are condemned to be free?

According to Sartre, man is free to make his own choices, but is "condemned" to be free, because we did not create ourselves. Even though people are put on Earth without their consent, we must choose and act freely from every situation we are in. Everything we do is a result of being free because we have choice. The only choice we do not have is that of having choices. Not only are we condemned to be free because we did not choose to exist, but we are also condemned to be free because we are the only thing that exists that has to be responsible for all of our actions. However, how do we know that God doesn't have everything determined for us and just leads us to believe that we are free? The truth is that we don't know, and won't until we leave this earth. It is now up to us to decide if our freedom is to be valued, and to choose the way we want to use our freedom. Sartre's main point is that from the moment we are thrown into the world, we must be completely responsible for all of our actions. There…show more content…
The use of the phrase "condemned to be free" sounds like Sartre see's this freedom as an inconvenience rather than a blessing. Since Sartre doesn't believe in God, he is seen as alone in the world with no one to depend on but himself. According to Sartre, God does not exist, and therefore cannot limit what we do or how we act. A person cannot make excuses for their actions, because there is no God to respond to, and he has chosen them on his own. We are condemned to face life and the responsibility that comes with it. Even if Sartre believed in a God, it still wouldn't help what he is trying to express. If God existed then some people would just want to let God make their decisions for them, which gives people an excuse for their actions, and takes away all sense of freedom. Or people would have to decide if they wanted to follow God's rules in the first place, and would then have to be responsible for this

French existential philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre is famous within the philosophical tradition known as existentialism. In a nutshell existentialism, states humans have no inherent purpose or essence and that we make our own meaning.

Sartre gave a lecture in 1946 titled “Existentialism is a Humanism”, in this lecture he gives the famous…

Jean-Paul Sartre was a French Philosopher born in 1905. Although a recognized  intellectual, he is perhaps best known for his fictional works and plays, which are richly  symbolic and espouse his strong views against the existence of a god and a person’s responsibility to define herself. The Roman Catholic Church was not  impressed with his atheist views and placed his work on their list of prohibited books (Index Librorum Prohibitorum) in 1948.

Sartre won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964, but refused it, remarking, “a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution.”

He believed all people are free to create themselves and not defined by laws or morals  from a divine being. It is in facing this realization  that a man or woman can begin the journey of defining what morality means to him or her. In his  work Existentialism is a Humanism, Sartre lays out his philosophy of self-definition:

“What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterwards. If 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. Thus, there is no human nature, because there is no God to have a conception of it. Man simply is. Not that he is simply what he conceives himself to be, but he is what he wills, and as he conceives himself after already existing – as he wills to be after that leap towards existence. Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself. That is the first principle of existentialism. And this is what people call its “subjectivity,” using the word as a reproach against us. But what do we mean to say by this, but that man is of a greater dignity than a stone or a table? For we mean to say that man primarily exists – that man is, before all else, something which propels itself towards a future and is aware that it is doing so. Man is, indeed, a project which possesses a subjective life, instead of being a kind of moss, or a fungus or a cauliflower. Before that projection of the self nothing exists; not even in the heaven of intelligence: man will only attain existence when he is what he purposes to be. Not, however, what he may wish to be. For what we usually understand by wishing or willing is a conscious decision taken – much more often than not – after we have made ourselves what we are. I may wish to join a party, to write a book or to marry – but in such a case what is usually called my will is probably a manifestation of a prior and more spontaneous decision. If, however, it is true that existence is prior to essence, man is responsible for what he is. Thus, the first effect of existentialism is that it puts every man in possession of himself as he is, and places the entire responsibility for his existence squarely upon his own shoulders.”

The thing I like best about Sartre are his views taken from his 1948 essay “Qu’est-ce que la littérature?”  (What is Literature?) in which Sartre writes that  literature is not a self-indulgent act by the writer, but a moral activity to enhance the freedom of  humanity. It, as with the creation of any art, is  necessary in a free society. The freedom to express oneself creatively is in direct relation to the freedom  to define oneself within a culture.

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