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A five page paper which looks at the concepts of existence, determinism and free-will in Sartre's Existentialism is a Humanism, Descartes' Meditations and the film The Matrix. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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common is the concept that existence comes before essence. The student could therefore point out that although Sartres philosophy is clearly different from that of the theists, there are certain
elements regarding the subjective and the nature of existence which are analogous. He notes that anything which is manufactured, such as a book or a paper-knife, begins not only with
an idea of its final form (a design or blueprint) but also the manufacturers knowledge of the kind of methods and materials he will need to produce it. There would
be little point in setting out to produce a manufactured article without having these pre-existing concepts to shape the final form. Therefore its essence, which is the combination of the
ideas and the design and manufacturing processes, comes before the knife is actually in existence.
A Christian existentialist would consider God as a supreme artisan, who already has the concept and design of a human being in mind before man is actually
created. Sartre then goes on to say that even without believing in the existence of God the same principle can be applied. Human beings exist, that is they appear in
the world, but only derive essence later. In other words, a human is nothing to start with, and the essence of the person comes from what they later make of
themselves as they interact with the world. From a theistic point of view, you could say that the design comes first and the physical object (which incorporates all the ideas
in the design) comes later. From an atheist perspective, the person has physical
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