Existentialist Writer
Jean-Paul Sartre
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A French philosopher, novelist and playwright who held that people are condemned to be free, and who declined the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964.
Key work: Being and Nothingness (1943)
“Existence precedes essence.”
Key ideas, in brief (in our words)
We are what we make of ourselves.
Bad faith is pretending we have no choice.
Each choice says what a person should be.
Read more: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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Existence Before Essence
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