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Existentialism Is a Humanism

by Jean-Paul Sartre

  • FINISHED
  • Finished July 2019
  • First published 2007

philosophy existentialism ethics

A lecture Sartre gave in 1945 defending existentialism against its critics.   He argues that people have no fixed nature and are fully responsible for what they choose to become.