Who Is Jean-Paul Sartre's Atheistic Existentialism?

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Jean-Paul Sartre presents an atheistic existentialism and defines it as ''a doctrine that makes human life possible and, in addition, declares that every truth and every action implies a human setting and a human subjectivity''1(Sartre, pg. 10). He states that, ''if God does not exist, there is at least one being in whom existence precedes essence, a being who exists before being defined by any concept, and that this being is a man''2 (Sartre, pg. 15). He goes on further in the matter and implies that by existing, a man is nothing other than what he projects himself to be because he is free, in other words, he is a continuous project that is lived subjectively. He also asserts that a man is responsible for his existence and that of others.