is no God to conceive it. Not only is man what he conceives himself to be, but he is also what he will himself to be after this thrust toward existence (Sartre 513).
Sartre thereby brings complete freedom to a person's life with such atheistic existentialism. The individual is free to make of himself whatever he will, whether he likes it or not. To Sartre, the individual who refuses to see this fact of freedom, or to act on it, is a coward. It is a frightening freedom because it puts the individual in a position in which he is alone in the world to make of himself and his life whatever he wants, without being able to refer to God or to any other external authority. Ever person is an individual agent of his own will and no other person is qualified to tell one what to do.
This philosophy honors the individual person, giving him complete freedom. However, because there is no God, and because every individual is responsible for his own life, the person has no guidance aside from himself in
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