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Sartre's Argument For The Existence Of God

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Sartre’s argument for the claim that without God, a person is “nothing else but what he makes of himself,” is based in the Age of Forlornness. According to Sartre, the existence of God is impossible, since the very concept of God is contradictory, because it would be the achieved in-itself-for-itself. Therefore, if God does not exist, he has not created man according to an idea that fixes his essence, so that man meets his radical freedom. This theory has an ethical consequence in which Sartre affirms that values depend entirely on man and are his own creation. In the opinion of Sartre, man is condemned to be free and he is responsible for his freedom. He is condemned because he did not create himself, yet he is free because nothing nor no

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