Topic > Jean-Paul Sartre Existentialism is humanism - 722

Anguish for Sartre are the feelings developed when you believe you are making every decision thinking that all humanity is watching you and that you have the burden of making a decision for everyone. Furthermore, Sartre believes that the pain of anguish comes from the fact that we choose for everyone in this way, but we have no evidence that we are choosing the right thing. Sartre uses a military leader to explain anguish by expressing the feeling of a military leader sending his soldiers to their deaths. Another emotional term used by Sartre is desperation. Despair comes from the realization that we must depend on others without being sure how they will behave. In his work, Sartre pushes the idea that we, as individual parts of a large world and individuals, have no control over how things will turn out. Sartre believes that we should not rely on anything outside our scope of control, but he also makes it clear that this should not lead us to not act on our ideas. Sartre actually believes that this lack of external help should lead us to act even more on our thoughts and ideas because there is no reality except in