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Why You Are Condemned to Be Free

Most people think freedom is a gift. Sartre saw it as a burden we cannot escape. There is no predetermined essence, no divine plan, no fixed human nature to guide us. We exist first, then we must create who we are through our choices.

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The thinker
Existentialist Pioneer

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, and novelist who became one of the key figures in 20th-century existentialism and phenomenology.

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