On Sartre, from the Pillars of Unbelief series, by Peter Kreeft, Boston College.
"He called his philosophy 'existentialism' because of the thesis that 'existence precedes essence.' What this means concretely is that 'man is nothing else than what he makes of himself.' Since there is no God to design man, man has no blueprint, no essence. His essence or nature comes not from God as Creator but from his own free choice."
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