What is Jean Paul Sartre' meaning of Existentialist philosphy?

What Does it mean Existence precedes Essence?





I have some ideas of his philosophy but I need to full detailed of his theory and I would appreciated. Serious Answer Please!!!!|||This is Sartre's idea that something (or someone) only has whatever purpose we assign to it. It does not inherently have a purpose (essence) as part of its form (existence). The opposite was argued by Plato and Aristotle, who said that the purpose of an object was contained within its form and are pale reflections of the ultimate form of the object.





For example we might say that the purpose of a knife is to cut, and that by blunting the knife we are depriving it of its purpose (Aristotle argued that to deprive something of purpse was the ultimate form of evil).





However, if someone who had never seen a knife before was unsure of the reason why it was made, they might use it as a perfectly functional doorstop or paperweight. To all intents and purposes the purpose of the knife would cease to be for cutting as no-one would be assigning that purpose to it, so its purpose would be to hold doors open, not to cut.





The fact that we are able to do this shows that the purpose of a object can't be pre-determined by its form as it would then be impossible to not know what something was really for.|||Sartre's thinking begins with his perception that no Thing Is.


This is contradictory to science and logic, in that nothing comes of nothing; hence, some Thing has always Been. Hence, Essence, whether Energy or Creative Mind God, logically precedes existence.





So, Sartre's presumption is basically flawed from the Beginning (pun intended).





As for his perception, he believes his awareness is like a wind from nowhere, to others. His perception of existence preceding essence is this wind of bio data becoming habitual, or pseudo-essential. (Sartre typically debases and equivocates words such as essence, in order to conform them to his materialist awareness.)





Sartre never freed himself from his level of perception, so he was consistent in his ignorance of Being (which Being his teacher Husserl taught to those able and willing; Jean-Paul didn't get it). Sartre was also consistent in that his philosophy is a "useless passion."





"Nihilism," Father Seraphim Rose,


"A Philosophy of Universality," O. M. Aivanhov,


"The Path of the Higher Self," Mark Prophet.|||By 'existence precedes essence', Sartre means that you become what you are. You 'exist' before you develop your 'essence'. This is existentialist because existentialism leads to either nihilistic doctrine or a come-to-terms philosophy. "Existence precedes essence" embraces the latter, as it implies that one creates the meaning in life, instead of having it devised for them (destiny).





Hey if you're getting into existentialism check out Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche and Albert Camus. Hope I helped, it was a rough patch for me when I started thinking about this (it got a bit depressing at times).|||Pretty much that you are free and with that freedom you have the capability to define and create meaning for yourself if you so choose. Freedom can be sort of scary, but at the same time, it's very uplifting and liberating to some degree.|||That you're completely free to do whatever you desire.





But you are smart enough not to do some of those things because you realize that they would have a bad impact on you or it could hurt other people.