But—and this is kind of tricky—when we make our choices, we’re actually making them for all people.3 Yeah. Wrap your head around that for a second. When we choose to do things, says Sartre, we’re creating an image of a person as they should be, which can then be viewed and followed by everyone else. Here Sartre weirdly converges with Kant, because he wants us to ask ourselves, “What would happen if everyone did what I am doing?” He wants us to determine our own morality but also model that morality for everyone else. This might seem like a contradiction: There’s no God, no “meaning” to the
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