Existence Precedes Essence

At the beginning of Albert's novel "Pest", the dead mouse filled the city of Oran. Despite the efforts to limit the plague, the plague spreads rapidly during the orang. Oran quickly was isolated, no one came in, nobody went out. Dr. Liu, a local doctor, organized a volunteer team to fight the plague. The team manages sanitation facilities and delivers infected personnel to Rieux Hospital. Through the novels the quality of the character of Dr. Liu and his volunteer team is consistent with Juan Paul Sartre 's existentialist characteristics.

In his argument, Sartre uses the main idea of ​​existentialism before "essence" and shows that there is a choice in everything we do. The existence of a belief preceding the essence indicates that there is no concept of a pre-existing person. This is the way we need to understand people - our "essence" is not a pre-determined one but each one creates. Humans exist in a form different from others. Plants and animals also have life, but they do not need to think about what their lives mean or how they act. Sartre tried to show that the man first existed and had the freedom to choose any kind of person. If existence exists before the essence, there is no determinism, people are free. Human life varies according to its nature. Some of the reasons to make you people is based on the fact that they no longer exist. We make choices and decide who is up to us now.

The first thing to explain is that "existence precedes essence". Presence is consciousness, essence is the composition of genetics and environment. In traditional western philosophy (which means non existentialism), essence always takes precedence over existence. Our genetic and environmental characteristics define us and they determine our behavior. In many cases, genetic and environmental characteristics shared between species are often referred to as "human beings". Existentialism rejects the existence of common humanity by proposing existence from essence. In other words, our consciousness has the opportunity to determine our emotions about the world around us without resorting to our basic genetic and environmental features.