... try to convey when I say that man is condemned to be free." With this quote taken from his essay "Humanism as Existentialism", 20th century French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre has been able to identify major ideas and concepts and reinforce those issues he has set forth to shape the school of philosophy broadly known as "existentialism". The Webster's New World Dictionary defines existentialism as "The ... , rather than a thing to be predicted. He exists as a conscious being, and not in accordance with any definition or essence or nature. Without a nature, individuals are nothingness. In...

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