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Ideas for 'Dthat', 'Why there isn't a ready-made world' and 'Existentialism and Humanism'

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16. Persons / A. Concept of a Person / 4. Persons as Agents
Man is nothing else but the sum of his actions [Sartre]
     Full Idea: Man is nothing else but the sum of his actions.
     From: Jean-Paul Sartre (Existentialism and Humanism [1945], p.41)
     A reaction: This might be plausible if unperformed actions are included. For some people, their whole life story consists of what they failed to do.
16. Persons / F. Free Will / 1. Nature of Free Will
Man IS freedom [Sartre]
     Full Idea: There is no determinism - man is free, man IS freedom. …Man is condemned to be free.
     From: Jean-Paul Sartre (Existentialism and Humanism [1945], p.34)