Emotions of despair and forlornness stem from two basic ideas that fundamentally define the existentialist view of life. According to the existentialist it is mans freedom that is the source of his anguish despair and forlornness. Because of our utter responsibility we are condemned to be free. Man suffers and is in anguish because of the unavoidable responsibility he must shoulder and the unavoidable choice that he must make to create himself and those around him. According to Sartre man suffers because he is condemned to be free. Man's anguish begins with the problem he faces regarding his own existence. Sartre's ethics go against any notions of god as the creator of life and meaning. The reason that he believes man must exist before he can make the choice to create himself stems directly from the idea that there is not God to direct him and give him a meaning a priori.
Sartre's views stem from a form of atheistic existentialism that states that if god does not exist,......
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