Sartre rejects the existence of God from "summary" of Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
Sartre vehemently denies the existence of a higher being in the universe. He argues that the concept of God is a creation of human consciousness, a projection of our desires and fears onto an imagined deity. For Sartre, God is nothing more than a comforting illusion that people use to avoid taking responsibility for their own existence. In his view, belief in God is a form of bad faith, a way of escaping the harsh reality of human freedom and the burden of making choices. By attributing our actions and decisions to a divine plan or will, we relinquish our autonomy and deny the fundamental existential truth that we are solely responsible for our own lives. Sartre sees the belief in God as a form of self-deception, a way of evading the anxiety and uncertainty that comes with ...
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