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Try Existentialism is a Humanism. Good introduction. And not too hard. The idea behind Sartre is that existence precedes essence. We're born, we exist...and then define ourselves by our actions. It gives us a great responsibility.
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Maybe I'm bad at philosophy, but for me, existence, essence is like the chicken and the egg. I don't think we can ever know what came first.
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He said we can choose our lives without any higher principle.