Jean-Paul Sartre's Argument Analysis

Parents start worrying about how their child looks and acts right after it is born. When a child does something stupid it is seen as a warning sign of their future, but the truth is most people cannot remember the first years of their lives. At this age children know nothing and their parents know even less. Why does society forget this era of their lives so easily then? It could be because at this point a person is no one. He or she has yet to develop any sense of self in the world. Once a person is born he/she goes through a rapid stage of learning, but what comes before that is unknown. Jean-Paul Sartre offers an opinion similar to John Locke’s “tabula rasa” in thinking that “existence precedes essence.” Many argue on the making of a man, but Sartre humanistically gives people the ability to decide who they want to be. On the other hand, Sartre’s argument is fundamentally false as people do not have the ability to will themselves to be achieving beings.
It is his choice to decide what he wants to be. In other words, we exist first and then determine our own essence. This would indicate that when born, a person has the potential to be anything and anyone. Sartre also made his case that God did not create us for any other reason, than the reason we choose, this is called the first principle of Existentialism. Contrarily, believing that only humans determine their density and that seeking divine guidance would be in vain, Sartre denounces God. A god would limit a person’s free will to determine what he will make of