He believes in quitting-only human existence precedes essence, so people can constantly change their identity and escape from the essence endowed before, so people are free. If you give up this privilege and lock yourself in a specific identity, you become an existence, just like a bag is only used to hold things.
From this perspective, the meaning of "duty" lies in the process of finding. When a vocation is found, it may be a free "existence". But after finding my vocation, I imprisoned myself in the essence of "I was born to do this" and became an unfree "existence".
No wonder Rousseau said at the beginning of "On Social Contract", "People are born free, but they are shackled everywhere." But the greater freedom, the greater responsibility.
Everything in the world is nothing more than your own choice (either active or passive), and the result is only conceit.
Philosophy, looking for answers to life troubles
Huang zhenkui
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15 can you get happiness if you find your vocation? -Sartre's "Separation"
& gt& gt Reluctantly doing annoying things, getting along with people I don't like, and constantly consuming my soul and body.
& gt& gt I find that people who find their "vocation" look the happiest.
& gt& gt Sartre's famous saying "Existence precedes essence" (existence precedes essence).
& gt& gt "existence" is not limited to essence. Just as no one is born to take things or write, this means that no one is born to achieve a certain essence. So strictly speaking, "existence" should be translated into "detachment" rather than "existence". Man always tries to escape from nature, which is endowed with export. Whenever there is a change of identity-from primary school students to college students, from soldiers to office workers, we will escape from the nature we were given before. Humans are constantly trying to escape from the essence and "get rid of existence" freely.
& gt& gt Some people even know that the current workplace is gradually devouring their bodies and spirits, but they still accept their fate and think that this is their destiny. They agree that they are an illiberal "existence" because they think they can't get rid of the present essence (office workers) and can't be free.
& gt& gt Human beings are free to escape from the endowed essence.
& gt& gt Now I finally understand why he said that human beings can be freed from the essence, because human beings can shape the present essence into another new essence at any time.
& gt& gt People are not limited to the essential existence, but can freely create new essential existence.
& gt& gt Sartre argues that people are different from other things and can reflect and examine their own "self-existence", so they can be called "detachment".
& gt& gt Sartre once said that we can decide to make the future "I" different from the past or present according to our own will. When human beings form their own lives by their own will, they can be called "detachment".
& gt& gt Sartre thinks that "people are' beings who can freely decide their future lives' because people are different from other things (beings) and can look back and reflect on themselves. I finally know why so many people are trapped in the given essence (clown, banker, waiter) because they can't "do it by themselves".
& gt& gt Only those who are not themselves will be trapped in the endowed essence and wander in it. Knowing how to review and examine the detachment of life has already reached the door of duty.
What kind of happiness will & gt& gt vacation bring? Can you leave that physical and mental workplace? Can you find a job where you can be happy every day? These are just appearances. The happiness of duty essentially comes from eliminating one's freedom. Duty is a job given by heaven, and you can't refuse it or avoid it. People who find it often say that they are born for something (acting, singing and writing), which means that they don't have to experience professional confusion or anxiety, but at the same time they are locked in a specific essence.
& gt& gt I want to find my career for the same reason that I want to stay in this industry. They can't bear the freedom they are given, so they want to escape. The former said, "As long as you find your vocation, you don't have to feel uneasy." The latter said: "As long as you continue to engage in this vocation now, you will not be uneasy again." So he escaped from freedom. Freedom and uneasiness are like two sides of a whole: because of freedom, they are uneasy; Free because of anxiety.
& gt& gt In Sartre's view, although human freedom is absolute, it also makes people feel uneasy, so people will avoid freedom or choose to play the role chosen by morality, society and religion for us.
The significance of>& gt vocation lies in the process of finding it. When a job is found, it may be a free "escape". But after finding my vocation, I imprisoned myself in the essence of "I was born to do this" and became an unfree "existence".
& gt& gt No matter how much we want to work, it should not be our essence. We must be free to embark on the journey of finding our next career again.
& gt& gt Sartre said: "Human existence and human freedom are actually the same thing."
& gt& gt Although human beings have been thrown into this world for no reason and can only live a life without any purpose, it is precisely because of this that they can become creative beings and freely develop their own meanings!