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" Not only is man what he conceives himself to be, but he Is also only what he wills himself to be after this thrust toward existence. Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. . . . Man is at the start a plan. "
A Philosophy of Hope: Josef Pieper and the Contemporary Debate on Hope - Page 25
by Bernard N. Schumacher - 2003 - 317 pages
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Main Currents of Western Thought: Readings in Western European Intellectual ...

Franklin Le Van Baumer - History - 1978 - 824 pages
...will have made what he will be. Thus, there is no human nature, since there is no God to conceive it. Not only is man what he conceives himself to be, but...himself to be after this thrust toward existence. • * * The existentialists say at once that man is anguish. What that means is this: the man who involves...
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Literary Relativity: An Essay on Twentieth-century Narrative

Betty Jean Craige - Literary Criticism - 1982 - 148 pages
...will have made what he will be. Thus, there is no human nature, since there is no God to conceive it. Not only is man what he conceives himself to be, but...himself to be after this thrust toward existence. 10 The death of God is therefore the death of an objective universe in which things and events and...
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Existentialism and Human Emotions

Jean-Paul Sartre - Philosophy - 1985 - 98 pages
...will have made what he will be. Thus, there is no human nature, since there is no God to conceive it. Not only is man what he conceives himself to be, but...Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. Such is the first principle of existentialism. It is also what is called subjectivity, the name we...
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The Meaning of Creation: Genesis and Modern Science

M. Conrad Hyers - Religion - 1984 - 220 pages
...totally responsible for the values it creates. Although "man is condemned to be free," in that freedom "man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. . . . Man is the being whose project is to be God." 9 Sartre is followed in this self-affirming optimism by scientists...
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On Religious Freedom

Jay Newman - Freedom of religion - 1991 - 249 pages
...afterwards, defines himself. . . . Thus, there is no human nature, since there is no God to conceive it. Not only is man what he conceives himself to be, but...himself to be after this thrust toward existence. 75 For Sartre, then, religion is a form of experience and culture that is necessarily repressive insofar...
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Escape from God: The Use of Religion and Philosophy to Evade Responsibility

Dean Turner - Escape (Ethics). - 1991 - 328 pages
...will have made what he will be. Thus, there is no human nature, since there is no God to conceive it. Not only is man what he conceives himself to be, but...only what he wills himself to be after this thrust towards existence. 1 ° Each individual person, Sartre insisted, “is nothing else but what he makes...
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The Plays of Alma De Groen

Elizabeth M. Perkins - Drama - 1994 - 208 pages
...will have made what he will be. Thus, there is no human nature, since there is no God to conceive it. Not only is man what he conceives himself to be, but...only what he wills himself to be after this thrust towards existence. Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.2 Feminist existentialism expands...
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Images of the Human: The Philosophy of the Human Person in a Religious Context

Hunter Brown, Leonard A. Kennedy - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1995 - 660 pages
...will have made what he will be. Thus, there is no human nature, since there is no God to conceive it. Not only is man what he conceives himself to be, but...Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. Such is the first principle of existentialism. It is also what is called subjectivity, the name we...
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Freedom and Culture in Western Society

Hans Theodorus Blokland - Political Science - 1997 - 340 pages
...will have made what he will be. Thus, there is no human nature, since there is no God to conceive it. Not only is man what he conceives himself to be, but...Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. (Sartre 1946: 15) 5 In 1985, twenty-two of his scattered essays on these areas were collected under...
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Becoming a Cosmopolitan: What it Means to be a Human Being in the New Millennium

Jason D. Hill - Philosophy - 2000 - 232 pages
...will have made what he will be. Thus, there is no human nature, since there is no God to conceive it. Not only is man what he conceives himself to be, but...Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. Such is the first principle of existentialism. 4 Existence has priority over essence because existence...
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