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âExistentialism Is a HumanismâJean-Paul Sartre My purpose here is to offer a defense of existentialism against several reproaches that have been laid against it.First, it has been reproached as an invitation to people to dwell in quietism of despair.hus, the . conception of man in the mind of God is comparable to that of the paper-knife in the mind of the artisan: God makes man according to a procedure and a conception, exactly as the artisan manufactures a paper-knife, following a definition and a formula.