We are free to choose God of our own power. Man is condemned to be free. Having been hurled into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. Free Will Response Paper 1. Man must create himself.
Man is condemned to be free.
Having been hurled into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. The person who lives an authentic existence is the one who keeps ever aware of the absurdity of the cosmos but who rebels against that absurdity and creates meaning.