Jean-Paul Sartre. Existentialism is a humanism (№ 409324)

Dostoevsky once wrote that "if there is no God, then everything is allowed." This is the starting point of existentialism. In fact, everything is permissible if God does not exist, and therefore a person is abandoned, he has nothing to rely on either in himself or outside. First of all, he has no excuses. Indeed, if existence precedes essence, then nothing can be explained by reference to this human nature once for all. In other words, there is no determinism, man is free, man is freedom.