After learning from and studying your philosophical view of man-kind, I understand that it is believed by you that because there is no God, there are no maker of man and no such thing as a divine conception of man in accordance with which man was created. This is defective for the sole fact that without a God, we (as a human) would not be here today.
It has always been known the one individual is born from another from generation to generation into this land. Our God is the first one to be known to our creation, and therefore the first “being” of man-kind.It is our God that has brought us here to this day and age. Furthermore, it has been made known that the individual, in effect, has been thrown into existence without any real reason for being. This has been mistaken.
Man is here today to create today for what will be of existence tomorrow. Part of our existence includes restructuring, improving, and revolutionizing the world around us. The world we have today is the one that will exist for our next generation. However, according to yourself it is only through acceptance of our responsibility that we may live in authenticity.
To be responsible, to live authentically, means intentionally to make choices about one’s life and one’s future, as you had stated. Such choices are made most efficaciously, by becoming betrothed in the world and by selecting a fundamental project, one that would mobilize and direct all of one’s life energies and permit one to make extemporaneous choices. It would be through this project that the individual creates a world that does not yet exist and thus gives meaning to his or her own life. It is also understood as well that because there is no God and hence no divine plan to determine what must happen, “there is no determinism.This is to say man is free to do as he wishes and as needed without any force of do anything of any wrong doing.
Sartre wrote, “Man is freedom”; and, in fact, he is condemned to be free. Nothing forces us to do what we do. This did not always hold truth for the reason that we did not always have the ability to be free. There have been plenty of times throughout the existence of life that freedom was fought for.
A good example of this was slavery in the United States and the abolition of it.The American Civil War claimed well over a million lives and shattered the Southern economy. Although U. S. leaders were initially reluctant to propose that slavery be abolished in the South, President Abraham Lincoln finally acquiesced in January of 1863 with the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all Southern slaves but did not affect slaves living in the non-Confederate states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and West Virginia.
The Thirteenth Amendment, which permanently ended the institution of chattel slavery throughout the country, followed in December of 1865.You have said Sartre that, “We are alone, without excuses,” which is known to have simply said that we cannot excuse our actions by saying that we were forced by circumstances or moved by passion or otherwise determined to do what we did. While in maybe only one point of view this could hold truth, there are other examples as well that outweigh this belief. It could not nor would not have been said we could not excuse our actions by saying that we were forced by other circumstances for actions. If this were true, a document known as The Declaration of Independence would never have any need to be enacted.
Without this document adopted by congress on July 4, 1776, your statement alone could have never even been close to true. It has also been believed by you that because there is no God, there is no objective standard of values. After reviewing fundamental beliefs, you had written “It is very troubling that God does not exist, for with him disappears every possibility of finding values . . .
there can no longer be any good a priori. ” However, a Godless world does not exist and could never exist for the very reasons that, as a human, have our own set of values established and need not be invented.
