(Jean-Paul) Sartre gives us this idea that the idea of God encloses us in a finite, and certain system. And this system prevents us from realizing our authentic self. That the idea of God gives us this notion that we are created with a pre-determined disposition in the universe. Because of this, man is believed to have a certain order: a human nature. That each human being supposedly created in God's image and likeness is an example of a universal idea that is Man.
He then argues that if God does not exist, this concept of a human nature is changed. Because man is created first, and then creates his existence, this concept called human is being reinvented. Because of this, Sartre gives us this responsibility that we are not just being human by ourselves but we involve humanity in this as well. There is no God to conceive the idea of human nature.
Therefore, we are given this task to define ourselves. We are given this outrageous freedom. Man is what he conceives and wills himself to be. We are no longer bound to the construct and idea of God. Man comes up and defines what is good and what is evil.
And so Sartre gives us 3 aspects that define human condition. Man involves himself and not only does he choose for himself; he becomes a lawmaker who also chooses for mankind. This anguish gives us a sense that each act done by man, he doesn't make it for himself~ he does it for all humanity.
The fact that God does not exist throws us in a world of abandonment. Like orphans, we are thrusted in a world of unknowns. And that we are alone with no one to help us and save us. The meaning of existence is all about you and no one else. Forlornness condemns us to be free. And that we can't start making excuses for ourselves. We are responsible.
As with despair, we live to confine ourselves with what depends on our wills. We are left in a realm of possibilities with not a single safety harness or a security blanket.
With all of these in mind, we are clear of the obstacle that we call God. A God that is a construct to explain things unknown. The cheap way out in understanding what we can never understand. But we have reached this point in time where man craves that certainty; where man wants the absolute. And suddenly, the idea of God becomes and age-old myth.
Man wants to be his own future. He want to be the captain of his ship. He wants to live in a world where man decides what he is and what others are. He determines the value of this affection, acts on it and then confirms and defines it. He wants to live in a world where he becomes someone. And this someone would not become a reality unless others recognize him as a someone. And being free is searching for your most authentic self. We are released from the shackles of an illusion that is absolute and that this absolute has already written your fate. We become true to our human condition and that our human existence is a life of invention and creativity.
But my dear reader, it is not in the idea of believing or not believing in God that we manifest ourselves as humans having the potential to be his authentic self. In is our own choice if we should believe in God or not. Some people can reach his authentic self through God. Some people feel confined or limited in a system that is created by the construct of God. The God question gets in the way. Man should focus on his own existence and freedom. There is nothing wrong in believing in God or rejecting Him. If doing either makes you a better person, then so be it.
Life is nothing without man to give it a meaning. Values are nothing else but the meaning that you choose. This freedom is nothing unless you live and go out of your safety zone. And this freedom desires both itself and the freedom of others. But freedom does not depend on others- but as soon as there is involvement, we are obliged to want others to have freedom at the same time that we want our own freedom. And given that man is free, and that there is no human nature to depend on, we cannot depend of others who we do not know by relying on human goodness or man's concern for the good of society. We reach our own self in the presence of others just as others are as real to us as our own self.
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