Read the story Existentialism and then answer the following questions-

QUESTIONS

1. "Existence precedes essence": this concept is central to Sartre's existential philosophy. What does he mean by it?

2. Sartre develops his essay by definition: existentialism, he says, enables us to under stand the "actual content'. of three terms: "anguish, "forlornness," and "despair.' What are Sartre's definitions of these three terms? Flow does he distinguish among them?

3. Sartre says, "when we say that a man is responsible for himself, we do not only mean that he is responsible for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for all men" (paragraph I). Write an essay explaining how, in the framework of existentialist beliefs. this paradoxical statement is true.