Does anyone agree with Jean-paul Sartre on the idea that every human being is absolutely free?

Do u believe everything in our life is a choice and that it is impossible not to choose and that we are CONDEMNED TO BE FREE?|||No|||Not exactly. We are free in the traditional sense that we're not slaves, however not everything in our life is "free choice." Recently Julian Assange was absolutely criticized for the wikileaks incidence, then he was convicted and thrown into jail for an unrelated assault charge in Switzerland. Coincidence? I don't think so. This is my opinion, they probably bargained with the swiss government to throw him in jail, just so he could have punishment for what he did. That really isn't choice at all.|||It sure feels that way, though doesn't it?


You have to take this in the spirit of existentialism. Read Soren Kierkegaard and then subtract God.


A human life must, after all, be lived going forward and can only be understood (causally) by looking back. This has the feeling of completely choosing at every moment what I will type next. It seems I must choose to say something important or something true. It seems like I am choosing my own words and actions. If I am, am I not morally responsible for what I think and say and do? The law must certainly treat me as though I am the author of my actions. If they blame you for what I do, that can't be right and if I blame the all inclusive particle of wave functions you might think I was trying to escape my responsibility.|||The behaviourist B F Skinner certainly did not agree. His book "Beyond Freedom and Dignity." (the title is an echo of Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil) contains the most provoking thesis I have ever come across. It basically say Man is entirely a product of his genetic inheritance and environment, and has no autonomy at all.


Behaviourism is popular in the US prison service and in juvenile facilities, where it has some success in dealing with people who are poorly socialised. However, in the general population socialisation implies internalisation of values learnt from parents, other adults and peers through identification, which is a very different process.|||Nope. We are controlled by our environment and circumstances and our choices are too easily influenced by things our conscious mind is unaware of.


We are condemned to nothing except death.


My opinion only. i can speak for no one else.|||Not at all. Today, Mr Sartre's writing in that vein is looked upon as archaic considering the current knowledge of the effects of genetics on human behavior.|||FREE? from what???!