Jean Paul Sartre is an existential philosopher from France. Sartre as an existentialist has strong beliefs in free will/responsibility for choices you make, and individualism. Sartre does not believe in a transcendent force or a god, he believes that people make choices in their lives and those choices are 100% made by free will. With this idea Sartre also believes that people are also fully responsible for the decisions they make in their life. This theory goes for every single decision that a person makes, no exceptions it was your choice. Another important Sartrean theory is, his theory of individualism. Individualism is exactly what the name entails, Sartre believed that people should rely on themselves and stay individual, outside of a group. But this does not mean that everyone should be anti-social, Sartre himself was a pop icon. Sartre believed in this so much that he did not accept the Nobel Prize in Literature because, it would mean he would be part of that group. He knew......
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