Existentialism and Determinism.
Sartre may say, and indeed does say, that his meaning is that man has no essence antecedently to his free choices, to the essence he creates freely; but since he is able to delimit man as the object of his existential analysis in such a way that chickens are excluded, it is difficult to take him altogether seriously or to suppose that the proposition, “existence precedes essence,” amounts to much more than an emphatic assertion of liberty and an emphatic denial of any form of physical or psychological determinism.
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