Study Guide: Final Exam

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Opposite: essence precedes existence	Human nature comes first-humans are sinners man is entirely subject to God's plan or blueprint.
Freedom is a burden: no one else is responsible for me	No escape from responsibility I cause myself to act: not nature, psychology, genes, society, etc.
Responsibility	We cannot blame our parents, etc. for their influence. If they have influenced us, it is because we have allowed them to do so. Bad faith: If we allow others to influence what we really want Inauthentic human being
Anguish: when we realize we have responsibility for ourselves	Results from the direct responsibility toward others who are affected by our actions We cannot help escape the feeling of total and deep responsibility
Despair	Results because there is no final authority but ourselves to help us choose rightly
Forlornness	When we realize that God doesn't exist and that we have to face all the consequences of this.
Condemned to be free	We are condemned to establish our own values
How to act? With optimism! Take responsibility!	We are nothing else than the ensemble of our acts, nothing else than our life.
In choosing myself, I choose man.	Through our choices we determine or create what we will be. In those choices, we choose according to what we believe we ought to be. Consequently, we are creating ourselves according to what we think a person ought to be. In a sense, I'm putting a universal value to my act by deciding …